Alphabet, the home company of the technology giant Google, no longer promises that he will never use artificial intelligence (AI) for purposes such as the development of weapons and supervision tools.
The company has transcribed the principles that direct its use of AI, giving up a part that has excluded the use that “probably inflicted damage”.
IN Post on the blog Google older Vice President James Manyika and Demis Hassabis, led by the Google Deepmind AI laboratory, defended the move.
They claim that companies and democratic governments should work together on AI that “supports national security”.
There is a debate among the experts and professionals of AI about how powerful new technology should be managed by broad conditions, how many commercial gains should be allowed to determine its direction and how best it is to protect the risks for humanity in general.
There is and polemics Around the use of AI on the battlefield and in supervisory technologies.
The blog said that the original AI -ja principles published in 2018 should have been updated as technology developed.
“Billion people use AI in their daily lives. AI has become a general purpose technology and a platform that countless organizations and individuals use to create applications.
“He has switched from a niche research topic in a laboratory on technology that becomes pervading as mobile phones and the internet itself,” the blog said.
As a result, basic AI principles develop, which could be guided by common strategies, it is said.
However, Mr. Hassabis and Mr. Manyika said that the geopolitical landscape was becoming more complex.
“We believe that democracy should lead to the development of AI, guided by fundamental values such as freedom, equality and respect of human rights,” the blog states.
“And we believe that companies, governments and organizations that share these values should work together to create AI that protects people, promotes global growth and supports national security.”
The blog post was published directly in front of the APLANS’S END of Year financial report, showing the results weaker than the market expectations and demolished its share price.
This was despite the 10% increase in the revenue of digital advertising, its greatest earnings, intensified by the US election.
In its earning report, the company said it would spend $ 75 billion ($ 60 billion) on AI projects this year, and 29% more than the Wall Street analysts expected.
The company invests in the infrastructure to start AI, AI research and applications such as searching on AI drive.
Google’s AI platform Bemini now appears at the top of Google search results, offering AI written abstract and appears on Google Pixel phones.
Originally, long before the current increase in interest in the ethics of AI, Google’s founders, Sergei Brin and Larry Page, said their motto for the company “Don’t Be Evil”. When the company was restructured under Alphabet Inc in 2015, the parent company moved to the “do the right thing”.
Since then, Google’s staff has sometimes been pushed out against the approaches taken by their executives. In 2018 The company did not renew the contract for AI work with US Pentagon After the residues and petitions signed by thousands of employees.
They were afraid that “Project Maven” was the first step towards using artificial intelligence for deadly purposes.
