{"id":77538,"date":"2018-04-06T22:25:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T05:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/google-employees-pen-letter-denouncing-controversial-ai-drone-project"},"modified":"2018-04-06T22:25:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T05:25:46","slug":"google-employees-pen-letter-denouncing-controversial-ai-drone-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/google-employees-pen-letter-denouncing-controversial-ai-drone-project","title":{"rendered":"Google employees pen letter denouncing controversial AI drone project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/video.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/bc\/rtmp_uds\/1418450360\/2014\/10\/27\/1418450360_3860429812001_elon-musk.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Google should not be in the business of war\u2019: Over 3,000 employees pen letter urging CEO to pull out of the Pentagon\u2019s controversial AI drone research, citing firm\u2019s \u2018Don\u2019t Be Evil\u2019 motto\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>More than 3,000 Google employees have penned an open letter calling upon the internet giant\u2019s CEO to end its controversial \u2018Project Maven\u2019 deal.<\/p>\n<p>Calling the deal \u2018business of war\u2019, they said Google boss Sundar Pichai should \u2018cancel this project immediately\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It was revealed last month that Google is allowing the Pentagon to use some of its artificial intelligence technologies to analyze drone footage.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5583707\/Thousands-Google-employees-pen-letter-urging-CEO-pull-controversial-Pentagon-AI-project.html#ixzz5Btvmk9fk\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5583707\/Thous...z5Btvmk9fk<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Google should not be in the business of war\u2019: Over 3,000 employees pen letter urging CEO to pull out of the Pentagon\u2019s controversial AI drone research, citing firm\u2019s \u2018Don\u2019t Be Evil\u2019 motto\u2026 More than 3,000 Google employees have penned an open letter calling upon the internet giant\u2019s CEO to end its controversial \u2018Project Maven\u2019 deal. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1488,418,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-drones","category-internet","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}