Google tilts its promise: AI for military purposes now allowed!

Google tilts its promise: AI for military purposes now allowed!

In a surprising turning point, Google has given up its earlier promise not to develop artificial intelligence (AI) for weapon systems. The Tech-Riese revised the principles for its AI activities, and the self-obligation adopted in 2018 not to use AI for surveillance or to violate internationally recognized standards. This reported the crown and made it clear that the new version has reflected the quick technological development since 2018. In a blog entry, Google justified the change with the words that the principles should now be in accordance with "broadly accepted principles of international law and human rights".

Financial assessments and strategic shifts

In addition to this fundamental change, the parent company Alphabet is investing around $ 75 billion in the expansion of its infrastructure for AI. This was from Time online reported. Despite these massive investments, Google's share price fell by more than seven percent after the presentation of a disappointing annual report. Analysts had expected a higher profit and sales, while Google's cloud business increased by 30 percent to $ 11.95 billion, but was left behind the expectations.

In view of the developments in the AI ​​sector, it becomes clear that Google is trying to adapt its business model in order not to lose the competition from other companies that work with AI. The focus on AI summary of search results is intended to help answer user questions more effectively and to continue to make the web search attractive. Despite the setbacks in the overall business, the advertising revenues remained strong and continued to contribute most of the income of Alphabet, with sales of $ 72.46 billion.