Der Google -Besitzer verspricht, KI für Waffen nicht zu verwenden

Submission Statement:-The Google owner, Alphabet, has dropped its promise not to use artificial intelligence for purposes such as developing weapons and surveillance tools.

The US technology company said on Tuesday, just before it reported lower-than-forecast earnings, that it had updated its ethical guidelines around AI, and they no longer referred to not pursuing technologies that could “cause or are likely to cause overall harm”.

Google’s AI head, Demis Hassabis, said the guidelines were being overhauled in a changing world and that AI should protect “national security”.

In a blogpost defending the move, Hassabis and the company’s senior vice-president for technology and society, James Manyika, wrote that as global competition for AI leadership increased, the company believed “democracies should lead in AI development” that was guided by “freedom, equality, and respect for human rights”.

They added: “We believe that companies, governments, and organisations sharing these values should work together to create AI that protects people, promotes global growth, and supports national security.”

Google’s motto when it first floated was “don’t be evil”, although this was later downgraded in 2009 to a “mantra” and was not included in the code of ethics of Alphabet when the parent company was created in 2015.

The rapid growth of AI has prompted a debate about how the new technology should be governed, and how to guard against its risks.

The British computer scientist Stuart Russell has warned of the dangers of developing autonomous weapon systems, and argued for a system of global control, speaking in a Reith lecture on the BBC.

The Google blogpost argued that since the company first published its AI principles in 2018, the technology had evolved rapidly. “Billions of people are using AI in their everyday lives. AI has become a general-purpose technology, and a platform which countless organisations and individuals use to build applications,” Hassabis and Manyika wrote.

“It has moved from a niche research topic in the lab to a technology that is becoming as pervasive as mobile phones and the internet itself; one with numerous beneficial uses for society and people around the world, supported by a vibrant AI ecosystem of developers.”

They should have founded a separate company «Be evil» instead. BTW I don’t think US software is safe to use outside US anymore. We need serious alternatives to Google and Microsoft

Looks like evil is back on the menu, boys. (honestly, it never left).

When Google first opened their HQ they put up a sign which said, „Don’t be evil“.
They took it down a few years ago.

At his point, anyone working at one of the big techs who still believes in democracy should engage in some discrete sabotage

Seriously it’s just uber greed at this point. They would sell their own grandmothers to make a dollar. It’s a sad thing to see from the company that used to champion “don’t be evil”. Apparently “do the right thing” means “make more money”