Google policy change: AI for war & surveillance now ok
Posted: 5th February 2025
Google has quietly deleted its pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance, a promise that had been in place since 2018.
First spotted by Bloomberg, Google has updated its AI Principles to remove an entire section on artificial intelligence applications it pledged not to pursue. Significantly, Google’s policy had previously stated that it would not design nor deploy AI technology for use in weapons, or in surveillance technology which violates “internationally accepted norms.”
Now it seems that such use cases might not be entirely off the table.