Google is currently withdrawing from the Project Maven

Η Google αποφάσισε να μην προχωρήσει ένα αμφιλεγόμενο του Υπουργείου Άμυνας, γνωστό και ως Maven, which would help the US military perform analysis using artificial intelligence s.

Google Project Maven: Reactions to build AI weapon

The news was published today by , and was announced internally by Google Cloud chief Diane Greene in a meeting she had with department employees.
Greene's announcement comes just days after Google decided to reexamine its code of conduct s for the development of military AI.Google

Today's decision should calm the internal troubles of Google that began months ago since the company's involvement in Project Maven in March from Gizmodo. The publication said at the time that employees were "outraged" when they learned of the company's plans to use it to help a government program aimed at killing people with unmanned vehicles.

Here, we should mention that although Project Maven would not directly use Google's software for active participation in any form of warfare, the company would have tools and expertise in photo analysis with AI-compute vision algorithms. This, of course, could enable better targeting, and reduce collateral losses in future bombings.
But the full extent of Google's involvement in Project Maven has never been clear.

So in early April, more than 3.000 Google employees signed an open letter to the CEO of Google Pichai, calling for the company to withdraw from the program, writing that "Google should not be in war operations."
Earlier this month, Gizmodo reported that about twelve employees had resigned after Google's inaction and continued involvement in Project Maven.

Today it seems that the pressure exerted on Google has paid off. According to Gizmodo, Greene told employees that their reaction was the main reason the company decided not to renew her contract. Coincidentally, on May 18th, Google updated its code of conduct to replace the company's old motto “Don't be evil,” with “Do the right thing.”

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