Google announced Tuesday that it revised the principles governing the way it uses artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. The company has removed the promising language of not continuing “technologies that cause or are likely to cause global damage”, “weapons or other technologies whose main objective or implementation is to cause or easily facilitate injuries To people “,” technologies that collect or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted standards “and” technologies whose aim contravenes the largely accepted principles of international law and human rights “.
Changes have been disclosed in An annexed note At the top of a 2018 blog article, revealing the directives. “We have updated our IA principles. Visit AI.GOOGLE for the last, ”says the note.
In A blog article on TuesdayA pair of google leaders cited the increasingly widespread use of AI, evolutionary standards and geopolitical battles on AI as “backdrop” to the reason why Google principles had to be revised.
Google published the principles for the first time in 2018 while it was moving to suppress internal demonstrations in the face of the company’s decision to work on an American soldier drone program. In response, he refused to renew the government’s contract and also announced A set of principles To guide future uses of its advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence. Among other measures, the principles indicated that Google would not develop weapons, certain surveillance systems or technologies that undermine human rights.
But in an ad Tuesday, Google deleted these commitments. The new web page No longer lists a set of prohibited uses for Google AI initiatives. Instead, the revised document offers Google more space to pursue potentially sensitive use cases. He indicates that Google will implement “the appropriate mechanisms of human supervision, appropriate reason and feedback to align with the objectives of users, social responsibility and the largely accepted principles of international law and human rights” . Google also says that it will work to “mitigate involuntary or harmful results”.
“We believe that democracies should lead in the development of AI, guided by fundamental values such as freedom, equality and respect for human rights,” wrote James Manyika, Vice-President of Google For research, technology and company, and Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google Deepmind, the company’s research laboratory of the company. “And we believe that companies, governments and organizations sharing these values should work together to create an AI that protects people, promotes global growth and supports national security.”
They added that Google will continue to focus on AI projects “that align with our mission, our scientific objective and our areas of expertise, and remain in accordance with the largely accepted principles of international law and the rights of the man.”
Several Google employees have expressed their concern about changes in conversations with Wired. “It is deeply worrying to see Google abandon its commitment to the ethical use of AI technology without contribution of its employees or the wider public, despite the long -standing feeling of employees that the company should not be In the field of war, ”explains byul Koul, a Google software engineer and president of the Union Workers-Cwa alphabet.
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The return of the President of American President Donald Trump last month has galvanized many companies To revise policies promoting equity and other liberal ideals. Google’s spokesperson Alex Krasov said the changes have been in progress longer.
Google lists its new objectives as pursuing daring, responsible and collaborative initiatives. The sentences are gone as “being socially beneficial” and maintaining “scientific excellence”. Added is a mention of “respect intellectual property rights. “”