DeepMind Exodus: Google Sells AI to Military, Staff Quit Over Ethics
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A major ethical storm is brewing at Google DeepMind as it's revealed the company is selling its advanced AI infrastructure to the US military. This controversial move has prompted immediate and significant backlash, leading to multiple high-profile resignations from DeepMind staff.
Former DeepMind engineer Alex Turner explicitly stated his resignation was due to Google breaking its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against 'killer robots' or 'mass spying.' This development raises urgent questions about the responsible and ethical deployment of artificial intelligence in warfare.
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It's always awesome to have you on here, Zach, and you're always shocking us with your updates every week. So, what's happening this week? Well, uh, Google is actually back in the news. Um, it turns out that the people that were in DeepMind, um, have found out that Google is doing a wholesale sell of their, uh, AI infrastructure that they've been like building with in Google and giving it to the US military. And they are resigning right now. Uh, interesting, two people resigned yesterday. One of them was Alex Turner. Um, and he basically said the following. He said, um, I resigned from Google DeepMind because it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without any restrictions against killer robots or mass spying. Uh, for months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silence. And so, what's what's really interesting is that when DeepMind sold to Google, they had all these stipulations, like you can't, like, create autonomous kill drones. Um, and what happened was that their lawyers like sat them down and said, um, yeah, none of that matters. Um, in fact, we think that that's not legally ...