Sundar Pichai Meets Pentagon over Controversial AI Drone Project Maven

Facing President Donald Trump administration'due south ire over its censored Chine Search engine project, Google CEO Sundar Pichai met Pentagon officials during his trip to Washington concluding calendar week and probably discussed the controversial project "Project Maven", the media reported.

Co-ordinate to a report in The Washington Post on Friday, Pichai met "a grouping of civilian and armed services leaders mostly from the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, the Defense Department directorate that oversees the Bogus Intelligence (AI) drone system known as 'Project Maven'".

Google did not brand any comment on this report.

Sundar Pichai Meets Pentagon over Controversial AI Drone Project

After facing backlash over its involvement in the Pentagon Project Maven, Pichai in June emphasized that the company will not work on technologies that cause or are likely to crusade overall damage.

About iv,000 Google employees had signed a petition demanding "a clear policy stating that neither Google nor its contractors volition always build warfare technology". Following the acrimony, Google decided non to renew the project with the U.s. Defense Department later it expires in 2019.

"We will not pattern or deploy AI in weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people," Pichai had said.

We volition not pursue AI in "technologies that gather or employ data for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms," the Indian-born CEO added.

Pichai noted that "while we are non developing AI for utilize in weapons, we volition keep our work with governments and the military in many other areas like cybersecurity, training, military recruitment, veterans' healthcare, and search and rescue".

Pichai last week met Republican lawmakers and agreed to testify before the Business firm Judiciary Committee in November to allay concerns over privacy issues and the tech giant'due south entry into the Chinese market.