It tells you something when the same Google employees that gleefully work on more and better ways to spy, data mine and sell you to the highest bidder and the government balk at Google’s weaponized AI program.
It tells you something about Dr. Fei-Fei Li and the employees that remain.
By Scott Shane, Cade Metz and Daisuke Wakabayashi
…Yet last September, when nervous company officials discussed how to speak publicly about Google’s first major A.I. contract with the Pentagon, Dr. Li strongly advised shunning those two potent letters.
“Avoid at ALL COSTS any mention or implication of AI,” she wrote in an email to colleagues reviewed by The New York Times. “Weaponized AI is probably one of the most sensitized topics of AI — if not THE most. This is red meat to the media to find all ways to damage Google.” Read the rest of this entry »
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