Google has dropped an ethical pledge to not develop artificial intelligence systems that can be used in weapon or ...

In an update to its 2018 AI principles, the tech giant removed commitments not to pursue certain actions related to safety ...

This change, first noticed by Bloomberg, marks a shift from the company's earlier stance on responsible AI development.

“It is another sad example of how companies behave when there is a conflict between safety and profits.” This week, Google removed a longstanding pledge not to use AI to develop weapons ...

What are the main dangers of using AI in weapons? Should AI in general be more tightly regulated?

Senior Google executives defended a shift in its AI ethics policy which opens the door for its technology to be used in military applications ... pointing to weapons development as a key example. In a ...

Anthropic’s policy, for example ... has broken out around whether AI weapons should really be allowed to make life and death decisions. Some argue the U.S. military already has weapons that ...

By Niyakshi Shah “The problem is not that we have too much technology, it is that we do not control it.” —Henry Kissinger The rapid commercialization of emerging technologies like AI, quantum ...

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei is worried about competitor DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that took Silicon ... citing concerns that they could give China’s military an edge.

AI adoption parallels other historical innovations, with inertia giving way to gradual integration and, eventually, ...