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Alphabet, the mother -in -law of the technology giant Google, no longer promises that he will never use artificial intelligence (AI) for goals such as weapons and observation tools.
The company has rewritten the principles that guide the use of AI by missing a section that excludes uses that will probably cause harm.
In blog post Google’s senior vice president James Mastica and Demis Hasabis, who runs AI Lab Google Deepmind, have protected this move.
They claim that businesses and democratic governments must work together on AI, which “supports national security”.
AI experts and professionals are debates about how the powerful new technology should be resolved, how far commercial profits should be allowed to determine its direction and how best to protect themselves from the risks to humanity as a whole.
There are and there are dispute About the use of AI on the battlefield and in observation technologies.
The blog says that the original AI principles of the company published in 2018 must be updated as the technology has evolved.
“Billions of people use AI in their daily lives. AI has become a general purpose technology and a platform that countless organizations and persons use to build applications.
“He has moved from a niche research topic in the laboratory to a technology that is becoming as widespread as mobile phones and the Internet itself,” the blog post said.
As a result, the principles of AI of AI are being developed, which can lead general strategies, the statement said.
However, Hasabis and Manyika said that the geopolitical landscape is becoming more complicated.
“We believe that democracies must lead to the development of AIs, guided by basic values such as freedom, equality and respect for human rights,” the blog publication said.
“And we believe that companies, governments and organizations that share these values must work together to create AIs that protects people, promotes global growth and supports national security.”
The blog publication was published just before Alphabet’s financial statements at the end of the year, showing results that are more famous than market expectations and knocked down the price of its shares.
This was, despite a 10% increase in digital advertising revenue, its largest profitable, reinforced by US election costs.
In its profit report, the company said it would spend $ 75 billion ($ 60 billion) on AI projects this year, 29% more than Wall Street analysts expected.
The company invests in infrastructure to manage AI, AI Research and applications such as AI search.
The Google Gemini AI platform is now appearing at the top of Google search results, offering a written summary of AI and appearing on Google Pixel phones.
Initially, long before the current jump of interest in AI ethics, Google founders, Sergei Brin and Larry Page, said their motto for the company was “not be evil”. When the company was restructured under the name Alphabet Inc in 2015, the Mother Company went on to “do the right thing.”
Since then, Google employees have sometimes been repelled against the approach taken by their leaders. In 2018 The company does not renew an AI work contract with the US Pentagon After the resignation and a petition, signed by thousands of employees.
They feared that Project Maven was the first step to using artificial intelligence for deadly purposes.
