A former top U.S. Defense Department official said Tuesday he was “alarmed” by a recent decision by Alphabet Inc.’s Google to withdraw from work on a department initiative applying artificial intelligence tools to analyzing drone footage. More than 4,000 Google employees signed a petition calling for the cancellation of the Project Maven contract, citing Google’s history of avoiding military work and worries about autonomous weapons. “They say, look this data could potentially, down the line, at some point, cause harm to human life,” said Work, who served under President Barack Obama, at a Washington event on tech in …read more
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