Google employees ask Sundar Pichai to say no to classified military AI use

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Over 600 Google employees signed a missive to CEO Sundar Pichai demanding that Google artifact the Pentagon from utilizing its AI models for classified purposes, reports the The Washington Post. Its organizers assertion galore of the signers enactment successful Google's DeepMind AI lab, and see much than 20 principals, directors, and vice presidents.

According to the Post, the missive says that "The lone mode to warrant that Google does not go associated with specified harms is to cull immoderate classified workloads. Otherwise, specified uses whitethorn hap without our cognition oregon the powerfulness to halt them." Anthropic is presently successful a ineligible conflict with the Pentagon implicit being …

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