{"id":79240,"date":"2018-06-02T17:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T00:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/google-plans-not-to-renew-its-contract-for-project-maven-a-controversial-pentagon-drone-ai-imaging-program"},"modified":"2018-06-02T17:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T00:22:24","slug":"google-plans-not-to-renew-its-contract-for-project-maven-a-controversial-pentagon-drone-ai-imaging-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/google-plans-not-to-renew-its-contract-for-project-maven-a-controversial-pentagon-drone-ai-imaging-program","title":{"rendered":"Google Plans Not to Renew Its Contract for Project Maven, a Controversial Pentagon Drone AI Imaging Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google ends Pentagon contract to develop AI for recognising people in drone videos after 4,000 employees signed an open letter saying that Google\u2019s involvement is against the company\u2019s \u201cmoral and ethical responsibility\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Google will not seek another contract for its controversial work providing artificial intelligence to the U.S. Department of Defense for analyzing drone footage after its current contract expires.<\/p>\n

Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene announced the decision at a meeting with employees Friday morning, three sources told Gizmodo. The current contract expires in 2019 and there will not be a follow-up contract, Greene said. The meeting, dubbed Weather Report, is a weekly update on Google Cloud\u2019s business.<\/p>\n

Google would not choose to pursue Maven today because the backlash has been terrible for the company, Greene said, adding that the decision was made at a time when Google was more aggressively pursuing military work. The company plans to unveil new ethical principles about its use of AI next week. A Google spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions about Greene\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n

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Google ends Pentagon contract to develop AI for recognising people in drone videos after 4,000 employees signed an open letter saying that Google\u2019s involvement is against the company\u2019s \u201cmoral and ethical responsibility\u201d. Google will not seek another contract for its controversial work providing artificial intelligence to the U.S. Department of Defense for analyzing drone footage [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1488,30,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-drones","category-ethics","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79240","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\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}