Andrew NG, founder and former Google Brain leader, supports the latest Google decision to drop her pledge not to build weapons intelligence systems.
“I am very happy because Google has changed its position,” Ng said during an interview on the stage Thursday evening with Techcrunch at the San Francisco Military Starting Conference in San Francisco.
Earlier this week, Google deleted a seven -year -old pledge from the web page for artificial intelligence principles, which promised that the company would not design artificial intelligence of weapons or monitoring. Besides deletion, Google was published Blog post He was drafted by Deepmind Demis Hassabis, who indicated that companies and governments should work together to build artificial intelligence “support national security”.
Google pledged AI in 2018 after the MAVEN project protests, as thousands of employees protested the company’s contracts with the US military. The demonstrators specifically faced a problem with Google to provide artificial intelligence to a military program that helped explain video images, and can be used to improve the accuracy of drones.
However, NG was confusing by the demonstrators on the MAVEN project, and told an audience that is largely formed from the inventors of the warriors.
“Frankly, when the MAVEN project (…) a lot of you fell, is ready to throw blood to our country to protect all of us,” NG said. “How can the American company refuse to help the people who are there, and fight for us?”
NG did not succeed in Google when the MAVEN project protests occurred, but he played a major role in forming Google’s efforts on nerve networks and nerve networks. Today, NG leads a project that focuses on artificial intelligence, the artificial intelligence box, and talks a lot about the policy of artificial intelligence.
Neg later said that he is grateful because the efforts of Amnesty International – the California bill that was rights in California, SB 1047, and playing the executive executive order – no longer played. He has repeatedly argued that both procedures will be slowing the development of open source artificial intelligence in America.
NG, the real key to the safety of American artificial intelligence, has argued that America can compete with China technologically. He pointed out that drones of artificial intelligence “will completely revolutionize the battlefield.”
He is not the former CEO of the former Google company who published this message. Former CEO of Google Eric Schmidt is now spending his days Click on Washington, DC to buy AI drones To compete with China. His company and White Stork may provide these drones.
While NG and Schmidt appear to support the army’s use of Amnesty International, the issue has divided the ranks inside Google for years.
Miradeth Whitaker, a signal now, led Mavin’s protests in 2018 while working in Google as Amnesty International researcher. When Google pledged not to renew the contract contracts of the MAVEN project, Whittaker said it was happy with the decision, noting the company.It should not be in war actions“
It is not the only Google he opposed. Former Google Ai and Nobel-Laureate Geoffrey Hinton He called on global governments to prohibit and organize the use of artificial intelligence in weapons. Jeff Dean, the other executive director for a long time I signed a letter opposing the use of machine learning in independent weapons.
In recent years, Google and Amazon are under renewal of their military action, including their NIMBUS project with the Israeli government. The staff of both cloud service providers organized sit -ins in last year to protest against the NIMBUS project, according to which Google and Amazon provided cloud computing services for the Israeli defense force.
The Pentagon and the army all over the world have a renewed appetite for the use of artificial intelligence, said the chief artificial intelligence employee of the Ministry of Defense at Techcrunch. Since Google, Amazon, Microsoft and other technology giants invest hundreds of billions of dollars in Amnesty International’s infrastructure, many are looking to recover this investment through military partnerships.
