It’s been nearly three months since many Google employees—and the public—learned about the company’s decision to provide artificial intelligence to a controversial military pilot program known as Project Maven, which aims to speed up analysis of drone footage by automatically classifying images of objects and people. Now, about a dozen Google employees are resigning in protest over the company’s continued involvement in Maven.
The resigning employees’ frustrations range from particular ethical concerns over the use of artificial intelligence in drone warfare to broader worries about Google’s political decisions—and the erosion of user trust that could result from these actions. Many of them have written accounts of their decisions to leave the company, and their stories have been gathered and shared in an internal document, the contents of which multiple sources have described to Gizmodo.
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I respect their ethics. Resigning from Google - one of the best companies you can have on your CV - is quite a feat.
ReplyDeleteBut in reality, we need AI weapons, because Russia and China will not wait for us if we fall behind. It is more important than Nuclear weapons. That's the reality. Another reality is that much of the research will come from the private sector (again, unlike nuclear weapons, which can more easily be controlled and stored etc).. AI is different and we better get our act together