{"id":78666,"date":"2018-05-15T02:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T09:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/inside-google-a-debate-rages-should-it-sell-artificial-intelligence-to-the-military"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:07:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:07:05","slug":"inside-google-a-debate-rages-should-it-sell-artificial-intelligence-to-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/inside-google-a-debate-rages-should-it-sell-artificial-intelligence-to-the-military","title":{"rendered":"Inside Google, A Debate Rages: Should It Sell Artificial Intelligence to the Military?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-google-a-debate-rages-should-it-sell-artificial-intelligence-to-the-military.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pichai\u2019s challenge is to find a way of reconciling Google\u2019s dovish roots with its future. Having spent more than a decade developing the industry\u2019s most formidable arsenal of AI research and abilities, Google is keen to wed those advances to its fast-growing cloud-computing business. Rivals are rushing to cut deals with the government, which spends billions of dollars a year on all things cloud. No government entity spends more on such technology than the military. Medin and Alphabet director Schmidt, who both sit on the Pentagon\u2019s Defense Innovation Board, have pushed Google to work with the government on counter-terrorism, cybersecurity, telecommunications and more.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>To win in the business of cloud computing, the company tiptoes into the business of war. Some staff fear it\u2019s a first step toward autonomous killing machines.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-05-14\/inside-google-a-debate-rages-should-it-sell-artificial-intelligence-to-the-military\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018&#45;05&#45;14\/i...e-military<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pichai\u2019s challenge is to find a way of reconciling Google\u2019s dovish roots with its future. Having spent more than a decade developing the industry\u2019s most formidable arsenal of AI research and abilities, Google is keen to wed those advances to its fast-growing cloud-computing business. Rivals are rushing to cut deals with the government, which spends [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34,1490,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78666","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78703,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78666\/revisions\/78703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}