Google reverses pledge against AI-driven weapons to champion ‘free world’ security

Google has quietly gave up its long promise not to use artificial intelligence of weapons, declaring that “free countries” should be able to harness technology for national security purposes.

Policy shift appeared when James Manica (Google-Alphabet) and Mr. Dimis Hasabis (Google DeepMind), authored by the Technology giant assertion blog “supporting national security” in the increasingly tense geopolitical race to lead artificial intelligence.

The new position is a reflection of Google’s 2018 guarantee that it will never use artificial intelligence tools “that cause its main purpose or implementation to cause or facilitate people.” This vow was adopted after the employees came out in protest against the Pentagon drone project. In the aftermath of the last announcement, critics argue that Google risks undermining its values, noting that the company also removed its slogan “not a wicked” from the Code of its rules of behavior when restructuring under the alphabet of the parents ’entity in 2015.

Manica and Hasabis justified the change by highlighting the accelerating pace to innovate artificial intelligence and indicate the threat represented by China’s growing military interest in technology. Beijing has devoted artificial intelligence as a “revolution in military affairs” in the future, and is said to use technology to develop advanced independent arms systems. Deepseek, which is a Chatbot of Chinese artificial intelligence, has achieved results in some Western competitors tests, which increases the interests of the “moment of Sputnik” in the sector.

Since the onset of the Trucet, Google has faced an internal dispute over its ties to the defense sector. In 2018, the employees applied the executives to withdraw from the US military drone initiative. There was also contact with partnerships with foreign governments, especially in Israel. In addition to the debate, Jeffrey Hinton – who is called “the gods of artificial intelligence” – resigned in 2023, warning that technology can threaten humanity one day.

While critics inherit the apparent Google climbing, the companies’ heads assert that democracies should lead to the development of artificial intelligence. They argue that cooperation between companies, governments and organizations that “exchanging these values” will help ensure the use of artificial intelligence with responsibility – including for national defense.