Google Project Maven: Twelve Google employees quit the company because they disagreed with the plan to develop AI for the US Army through a program called Project Maven. Meanwhile another 4.000 others signed a petition demanding the attitude of work in the specific project.
The slogan “Do not Be Evil"Does not appear to be the case in this case as Google is reportedly preparing to develop machine learning systems to enhance the United States war machine.
For those who are wondering: No, Google isn't making killer robots, and it won't be developing weapons for the government, according to Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene. But it will help the army to regulate it TensorFlow to be able to analyze videos taken by drones.
Η online report which has more than 4.000 signatures, disputes the claims of company leaders and probably does not make a mistake:
Recently, Google employees expressed their misgivings and concerns about the Maven project. Diane Greene responded, assuring them that the technology it will not "operate to fly aircraft" and "will not be used to launch weapons". While this eliminates a small portion of immediate applications, the technology is being built for the military and will be used to assist in those tasks.
We can not know if Project Maven will or may not go on, but what we are sure about is that Google will not be back because 12 employees have left.
After all, no one is irreplaceable, especially for the Companies of Google's reach. A positive reframe from the company (don't laugh there's a chance we'll hear this too) is that we're teaching the military how to use open source software.
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