Google issued an update to its artificial intelligence policy Tuesday, largely removing prior language that indicated the company would not use AI for weapons and surveillance. In 2018, the company published its initial AI policy which read that it would not pursue any technologies that “cause or are likely to cause overall harm” or “gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms” among other

Google’s updated AI ethics policy removes its promise that it won’t use the technology to pursue weapons and surveillance.

Google changed its public AI policies to remove assertions it would not develop AI applied to surveillance or weapons.