Andrew NG ‘Very gratifying’ Google has dropped a weapon collateral

Google brain founder and former leader Andrew NG supports Google Decision to throw pledge for weapons not to establish AI systems.

“I am very glad that Google said in an interview on the stage during a meeting with a scene at a military veteran starting conference in San Francisco on Thursday.

At the beginning of this week, Google wiped a seven-year-old collateral from the AI ​​principles website, which promises to not design AI for the company’s weapons or control. Along with deletion, Google made a publication Blog Post Deepmind CEO Demis has to work together to build Penned by Penned by Penned, companies and governments “supporting national security.”

Google In 2018, AI weapons took hostage Following the project, thousands of employees protested against the company’s contracts with the US military. Protesters have taken a large number of issues with the AI ​​with a military program that helps comment on video images and to increase the accuracy of Drone holidays and can be used to increase the accuracy of the use of the traffic jams that can be used.

However, the NG collapsed by the Project Maven protesters, he explained to a spectator consisting of veterans.

“The deficit, when the project goes to many of your Maven Thing (…), you are ready to pour our country to protect you all,” Ng said. “Thus, how can a Heck a American company help our people who fight for us?”

When the Project Maven’s protests did not work on Google, but played a key role in shaping Google efforts around AI and Neuron networks. Today, NG speaks about AI-centered enterprise studio, AI Foundation and AI policy.

The NG was grateful, and the two EU regulatory efforts – Vetoed California Bill, SB 1047 and Over the AI ​​Executive Order – was no longer in the game. He has repeatedly contrabiled that both events would slow down the EI development in America.

The actual key to American AI security, NG is to ensure that America can compete technologically with China. EU drones noted that the “completely revolution of the battlefield”.

The only former Google Executive that spreads the message is not. Past Google CEO Eric Schmidt now holds their days Washington DC lobby to get AI drones To compete with China; His company, white stork, eventually can provide these drones.

When NG and Schmidt supported the use of AI’s military use, the topics have been divided in Google for years.

MerediTherer, now the signal president, while working as a EU researcher in Google, he headed Maven protests in 2018. Google said, when the project was pledged to update the Maven Agreements, Whittaker said the company is pleased with the decision of the company “should not be in war“

Not the only googler who buried. Past Google EU researcher and Nobel-laureat Geoffrey Hinton before Called to ban and regulate the use of the global governments of the EU. Another long time and dear Google Executive, Jeff Dean – Deepmind’s head of the Deepmind – before Autonomous weapons have signed a letter contrary to the use of machine learning.

In recent years, Google and Amazon, for military affairs, were checked again for their entry Project Nimbus Agreements with the Israeli government. Both cloud providers were reported to have passed last year’s Google and Amazon’s Israeli defense force cloud calculation services.

Pentagon and military in the world have an updated appetite to use AIThe head of the Defense Ministry told Techcrunch before the head of the AI ​​officer. When Google, Amazon, Microsoft and other technology giants have invested hundreds of billion dollars in the AI ​​infrastructure, many are returning this investment through military partnership.