FAANG:Google torpedoes "no AI for weapons" rules

HELLFIRE

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/google_ai_principles_update/

Google has published a new set of AI principles that don’t mention its previous pledge not to use the tech to develop weapons or surveillance tools that violate international norms. The Chocolate Factory's original AI principles, outlined by CEO Sundar Pichai in mid-2018, included a section on "AI applications we will not pursue." At the top of the list was a commitment not to design or deploy AI for "technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm" and a promise to weigh risks so that Google would “proceed only where we believe that the benefits substantially outweigh the risks”. Other AI applications Google vowed to steer clear of that year included:
Weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people.

Technologies that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms.

Technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.
... On Tuesday this week, Pichai's 2018 blog post added a notice advising readers that, as of February 4, 2025, Google has "made updates to our AI Principles" that can be found at AI.Google. These updated principles don't mention applications Google won’t work on nor pledges to not use AI for harmful purposes or weapons development. ...

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GrumpyCanadian

HELLFIRE Wonderful! So, when an AI-enabled weapon mames the wrong people due to a "hallucination", all they will need is a corresponding AI-enabled miracle technology to un-kill them. When and only when they have that perfected should this be allowed to go ahead. Since "AI" seems to be able to do no wrong lately, and clearly belongs in every aspect of our lives, how complicated can that be do develop? Sundar, my friend, make it so!

dave

~~"Don't be evil"~~

Hey, there's money to be made.