Google workers urge CEO to refuse classified AI work with Pentagon

Hundreds of Google employees are urging CEO Sundar Pichai to garbage to marque the company's artificial quality tools disposable for the Pentagon successful classified settings.

In an open letter to the main executive, Google workers assigned to AI systems voiced concerns astir the tech giant's ongoing negotiations with the U.S. Department of Defense, saying the exertion not due for "classified workloads."

"We consciousness that our proximity to this exertion creates a work to item and forestall its astir unethical and unsafe uses," the missive read. "Therefore, we inquire you to garbage to marque our AI systems disposable for classified workloads."

Neither Google nor the Pentagon instantly responded to CBS News' petition for remark connected the letter. 

They fearfulness that if made disposable for subject applications, Google's AI systems could beryllium utilized successful "inhumane oregon highly harmful ways," the employees wrote.

The missive cited lethal autonomous weapons and wide surveillance arsenic examples of perchance harmful applications of AI. 

"Making the incorrect telephone close present would origin irreparable harm to Google's reputation, concern and relation successful the world," the missive added. 

Google is negotiating a imaginable woody with the Defense Department to deploy its AI successful classified work, according to reporting from The Information. 

OpenAI earlier this twelvemonth struck an agreement with the Pentagon, which agreed not to usage Open AI exertion for wide home surveillance oregon to nonstop autonomous weapons systems.

Edited by Aimee Picchi

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