3 hours Ago By James Paul
Even as Chinese AI DeepSeek gains precedence over American rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT with Donald Trump in his second term at the White House, while the Russian aggression continues over Ukraine and Gaza remains bloodstained, the one company from Silicon Valley that pledged to not do evil has suddenly un-promised its sacred AI vows. Reportedly first spotted by Bloomberg, the Satya Nadella-led search engine giant secretly dropped its AI pledge from 2018 to not deploy artificial intelligence in surveillance and weapon tech. The section titled ‘Applications we will not pursue’ has been obliterated from the AI principles page.
In its new blog post, Google evokes the usage of AI in not only a) protecting people and b) promoting global growth, but also c) supporting national security. Now that right there is a trillion dollar market cap, insert right there. The newly updated AI principals page, meanwhile, states quite nonchalantly that Google will work to mitigate “unintended or harmful outcomes and avoid unfair bias.
” FYI, Alphabet’s subsidiary Google, which was founded in a Stanford dorm room in the mid-90s, made strategic investments in AI with Google Brain (2010) and the acquisition of DeepMind (2014), which were later merged into one entity in 2023. A dedicated AI division of the company Google AI was first announced by CEO Sundar Pichai at the Google I/O 2017. The company has drawn flak for allegedly providing advanced software and AI tech for the US and Israeli military in recent times.
Google removed the pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance from its AI principles — Nitasha Tiku (@nitashatiku) February 4, 2025 Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg. The company appears to have updated its public AI principles page, erasing a section titled “applications we will not pursue,” which was.
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twitter.com/hMbPziFbD9 — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) February 4, 2025 Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons, surveillance https://t.co/4Kw6qjaCyU — CNBC (@CNBC) February 5, 2025 Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons, surveillance https://t.
co/rqpu4LW6r8 — CNBC Tech (@CNBCtech) February 5, 2025 Meanwhile, the internet erupted in terminator memes over the news. Google droids excecuting me for making Bing my default browser on Chrome. pic.
twitter.com/RPMDQCr02P — Pickles (@Pickles_D2) February 4, 2025 Yup any ol' day now sigh pic.twitter.
com/H3ekZ1HqT6 — Ian (@IanFastred85) February 5, 2025 pic.twitter.com/rnwpDxPcyk — James (@pathrarelytaken) February 4, 2025 That didn’t last long pic.
twitter.com/INZlxUvDR1 — FilmThoughts (@hisfilmthoughts) February 4, 2025 Not good pic.twitter.
com/8kuTwwWxK0 — Samantha J. Foster Composer (@sjfostersound) February 4, 2025 Coming soon pic.twitter.
com/96bYcC3fzE — CannotBeBlank (@venividiperii) February 4, 2025 The defense contractor money was too much I respect it honestly. pic.twitter.
com/EtzQQzvt0U — Best is West (@best_is_west) February 4, 2025 pic.twitter.com/fOEqtqPYVY — MattRuns⛰️Skis🏔️Rides🚵♂️ 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 (@MKhaoS_86) February 4, 2025 “Drops its pledge” Uhhhhhhh @Google 🫨we un pledging shit now? 🤨 pic.
twitter.com/Q0PmCIpetd — ☯️ (@Bkwrd1) February 5, 2025 Right, but can they be trusted 🤨 pic.twitter.
com/201af7WZBA — Goat Herder 101 🐐 (@BillyGoat838) February 4, 2025 pic.twitter.com/EkTJ5d6s10 — Joe Smith 🇺🇸 (@joe_b_smitty) February 4, 2025 We’re living in the retard era 🤦♂️ pic.
twitter.com/J2zYJ8kbxL — Just Louis (@LouisTheCh4mp) February 4, 2025 And yet I’m sure someone is crossing their fingers behind their back 🤞 — Homie Santo (@HomieSanto) February 4, 2025 See Also: UK To Criminalize AI Tools Used To Generate Child Sexual Abuse Material Amid A Five-Fold Increase In Online Abuse See Also : Amid DeepSeek OpenAI Rivalry, The Vatican Rings Alarm Over AI And Misinformation; Says It Has ‘Shadow Of Evil’ See Also: Meet BooBoo, The AI Smart Pet That Is Helping Chinese Teens Combat Loneliness Cover: Patrick Gawande / Mashable India.
