{"id":17635,"date":"2025-02-05T10:37:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T09:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/google-owner-drops-promise-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T10:37:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T09:37:26","slug":"google-owner-drops-promise-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/google-owner-drops-promise-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Google owner drops promise not to use AI for weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet guidelines no longer refer to not pursuing technologies that could \u2018cause or are likely to cause overall harm\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Google owner, Alphabet, has dropped its pledge not to use artificial intelligence for purposes such as developing weapons and surveillance tools.<\/p>\n<p>The US technology company said on Tuesday, just before it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/feb\/04\/google-alphabets-q4-earnings\">reported lower than forecast earnings<\/a>, that it had updated its ethical guidelines around AI, and they no longer refer to not pursuing technologies that could \u201ccause or are likely to cause overall harm\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/feb\/05\/google-owner-drops-promise-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/42c2eae6e7e1400a3c6828b17cf6391ecab8127e\/122_180_2858_1715\/master\/2858.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8c492cd831bf527f40d20b4dd656b4c4\" title=\"Google owner drops promise not to use AI for weapons\" \/>Alphabet guidelines no longer refer to not pursuing technologies that could \u2018cause or are likely to cause overall harm\u2019<br \/>\nThe Google owner, Alphabet, has dropped its pledge not to use artificial intelligence for purposes such as developing weapons and surveillance tools.<br \/>\nThe US technology company said on Tuesday, just before it reported lower than forecast earnings, that it had updated its ethical guidelines around AI, and they no longer refer to not pursuing technologies that could \u201ccause or are likely to cause overall harm\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet guidelines no longer refer to not pursuing technologies that could \u2018cause or are likely to cause overall harm\u2019 The Google owner, Alphabet, has dropped its pledge not to use artificial intelligence for purposes such as developing weapons and surveillance tools. The US technology company said on Tuesday, just before it reported lower than forecast &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/google-owner-drops-promise-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google owner drops promise not to use AI for weapons<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17635"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}