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Workers at Google DeepMind Push Company to Drop Military Contracts
Saturday August 24, 2024. 02:45 AM , from Slashdot
'Any involvement with military and weapon manufacturing impacts our position as leaders in ethical and responsible AI, and goes against our mission statement and stated AI Principles,' the letter that circulated inside Google DeepMind says. (Those principles state the company will not pursue applications of AI that are likely to cause 'overall harm,' contribute to weapons or other technologies whose 'principal purpose or implementation' is to cause injury, or build technologies 'whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.') The letter says its signatories are concerned with 'ensuring that Google's AI Principles are upheld,' and adds: 'We believe [DeepMind's] leadership shares our concerns.' The letter calls on DeepMind's leaders to investigate allegations that militaries and weapons manufacturers are Google Cloud users; terminate access to DeepMind technology for military users; and set up a new governance body responsible for preventing DeepMind technology from being used by military clients in the future. Three months on from the letter's circulation, Google has done none of those things, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. 'We have received no meaningful response from leadership,' one said, 'and we are growing increasingly frustrated.' Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/08/23/2117212/workers-at-google-deepmind-push-company-to-drop-mil...
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