Hundreds of Google employees are up in arms over the company's
partnership with the Pentagon in AI technology, fearing it may be used
for war. Experts told RT the "questionable" alliance could result in
"disaster for humanity."
Google employees wrote a
letter to the company's CEO, Sundar Pichai, calling on the US tech giant
to immediately pull out of a controversial program that many fear could
be used for warfare.
"We believe that Google should not be in the business of war," the letter obtained by The New York Times and published earlier this week stated.
Gizmodo
broke the news about Google's partnership with the US Department of
Defense (DoD) last month, adding that Project Maven, whose stated mission is to "accelerateDoD's integration of big data and machine learning,"
was established in April 2017. The project will see Google developing
AI surveillance to help the US military scrutinize video footage
captured by US government drones "to detect vehicles and other objects, track their motions, and provide results to the Department of Defense."
Google claims that the technology is human-friendly and is actually designed to "save lives" and "scoped to be for non-offensive purposes." But Noel Sharkey, Emeritus professor of AI at Sheffield University, told RT that the fears of Google employees "are correct."
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