Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Following outcry from thousands of employees and the resignations of several over its work on drone and artificial intelligence technology with the U.S. military, Google announced Friday that it would not renew its contract on the Pentagon program known as Project Maven. The project was meant to assist the Defense Department in analyzing drone footage in order to develop new kinds of drone technology.
Google also plans to unveil new guidelines for its use of AI next week. In a letter to executives, about 4,000 Google employees condemned the company in March for its participation in the project, writing, 'Google should not be in the business of war...We cannot outsource the moral responsibility of our technologies to third parties.
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