Google won't deploy Artificial Intelligence to build military weapons: Sundar Pichai

After facing backlash over its involvement in an Artificial Intelligence -powered Pentagon project "Maven", Google CEO Sundar Pichai has emphasized that the company will not work on technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm. "We will not design or deploy AI in weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people," Pichai said in a blog post late Thursday. "We will not pursue AI in technologies that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms," added Pichai. In a blog post describing seven "AI principles", he said these are not theoretical concepts but "concrete standards that will actively govern our research and product development and will impact our business decisions".