Google announced on Tuesday that it is ending the principles that explain how it uses artificial intelligence and other advanced technology. The company removed the language, which is unlikely to “pursue technologies or cause overall damage,” “weapons or other technologies that cause major purpose or implementation or have the facility of injury to people directly,” “” Technologies that gather or use information in violation of the internationally approved norms, and “technologies that violate the widely accepted principles of international laws and human rights.”
Change in revealed A note added Unveiled guidelines on top of a 2018 blog post. “We have updated our AI principles. Go to AI.google for the latest, ”reads the note.
In A blog post on TuesdayA pair of Google officials cited AI's rapid widespread use, developing standards, and geopolitical battle on AI, as Google's principals were needed to overhall as “backdrops”.
Google first published principles in 2018 as it went to the company's decision to work on the US Army for internal protests. Drone programIn response, it refused Renew the government contract Even more announced A set of principles To direct the future uses of your advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence. Among other measures, Google stated that Google will not develop some monitoring systems, or techniques that weaken human rights.
But in an announcement on Tuesday, Google removed with those commitments. New webpage Now a set of banned uses is not listed for Google's AI initiative. Instead, the revised document provides more room to Google to carry forward cases of potentially sensitive use. It suggests that Google “will apply proper human inspection, proper hard work, and response mechanisms to align with user goals, social responsibility and widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.” Google now also states that it will “work to reduce unexpected or harmful consequences.”
“We believe that democracy should lead to AI development, directed by main values such as freedom, equality and honor for human rights,” James many, Google Senior Vice President for Research, Technology and Society and Demis Hasabis, Google The CEO of Deepmind wrote, the company's respected AI Research Lab. “And we believe that companies, governments and organizations that share these values should work together to make AI that protects people, promotes global development, and supports national security.”
He said that Google AI will continue to focus on projects “which align with our missions, areas of our scientific attention and our expertise, and remain in line with international laws and widely accepted principles of human rights.”
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Google lists its new goals as bold, responsible and colleague AI initiative. There are phrases such as “socially beneficial” and “maintaining scientific excellence”. The couple mentions “honor” Intellectual property rights,