Google, the company that originally instituted, then removed, the motto “don’t be evil,” also made a pledge about its artificial intelligence projects. Because they’re Google, a titanic pile of cash and (still in some areas) technical talent, their AI projects are world-class. They pledged that their AI applications would never involve “(1) weapons, (2) surveillance, (3) technologies that “cause or are likely to cause overall harm,” and (4) technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.”
Yeah, well, so much for that.
