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Google pledges not to use AI for weapons or surveillance
"Peter Asaro, vice chairman of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, said this week that Google's backing off from the project was good n…
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Google Backtracks, Says Its AI Will Not Be Used for Weapons or Surveillance
"“While Google’s statement rejects building AI systems for information gathering and surveillance that violates internationally accepted norms, we are conc…
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Google Renounces AI Weapons; Will Still Work With Military
"The principles about surveillance were not specific enough, according to Peter Asaro, an associate professor at The New School who organized a letter from…
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Google just released a set of ethical principles about how it will use AI technology
"Pichai's pledge regarding weapons was "really strong," Peter Asaro, associate professor of media studies at the New School in New York, told…
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Artificial intelligence debate flares at Google
"“We are calling on Google not to make weapons because Google has a special relationship with the public in virtue of the kind of personal data they are co…
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Google Staff AI Revolt Jeopardizes Pentagon Cloud Deals
""A lot of those cloud services are tied to the AI that they’re using," said Peter Asaro, an associate professor at The New School who organized…
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Academics protest Google’s role in drone murder
"“It is clear that the Pentagon aims to build out Project Maven to armed drones, and its functionality does not need much adjustment to become a target rec…
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Unfiltered: ‘Time is running out’
"In this week’s episode of Yahoo News’ Unfiltered, we talk to New School professor Peter Asaro about the dangers of artificial intelligence technology and…
Google's march to the business of war must be stopped
Should Google, a global company with intimate access to the lives of billions, use its technology to bolster one country’s military dominance? Should it use its…
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Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
"More than 90 academics in artificial intelligence, ethics, and computer science released an open letter today that calls on Google to end its work on Proj…
Why the world needs to regulate autonomous weapons, and soon
The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the UN has just concluded a second round of meetings on lethal autonomous weapons systems in Geneva, und…
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AI is an excuse for Facebook to keep messing up
"Beyond that, the kinds of content Zuckerberg focused on in the hearings were images and videos. From what we know about Facebook’s automated system, at it…