Google has signed a Pentagon deal allowing its AI models to support classified operations, despite objections from hundreds of employees.<\/p>\n
Google has signed an\u00a0agreement with the Pentagon allowing its artificial intelligence models to\u00a0be\u00a0used in\u00a0classified operations, The Information reported.<\/p>\n
According to\u00a0the outlet, the deal gives the US\u00a0military access to\u00a0Google\u2019s\u00a0AI\u00a0technologies for any lawful government needs. Under the agreement, the company must also help configure safeguards and filters if\u00a0requested by\u00a0US\u00a0authorities.<\/p>\n
The contract states that the technologies must not be\u00a0used to\u00a0monitor US\u00a0citizens or\u00a0in\u00a0autonomous weapons without proper human control and oversight. At\u00a0the same time, Google will not be\u00a0able to\u00a0restrict the use of\u00a0its AI\u00a0models within lawful operations.<\/p>\n
A\u00a0Google representative told Reuters that the company supports both classified and unclassified projects with government agencies. The company views Pentagon access to\u00a0its AI\u00a0infrastructure as\u00a0a\u00a0responsible approach to\u00a0national security.<\/p>\n
Before the contract was signed, more than 600 Google employees appealed to\u00a0CEO Sundar Pichai not to\u00a0provide the US\u00a0military with AI\u00a0models for classified operations. The petition argued that artificial intelligence should serve society and not be\u00a0used in\u00a0inhumane or\u00a0highly harmful ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google has signed a Pentagon deal allowing its AI models to support classified operations, despite objections from hundreds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24,1276,25,14649,132,1429,1896,388,2267,141,7823,14650],"class_list":{"0":"post-20904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-google","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-models","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-classified-operations","12":"tag-google","13":"tag-google-ai","14":"tag-national-security","15":"tag-pentagon","16":"tag-reuters","17":"tag-sundar-pichai","18":"tag-the-information","19":"tag-us-military"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}