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Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt says Silicon Valley will need ‘AI principles’ before working with US military

503831584.jpg.0Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Schmidt said that AI would be useful for “defensive and perhaps offensive purposes” in warfare, and developing the technology would have to be done with the help of the private sector. When asked by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) how this would work considering the “reluctance” of tech companies to work with the Department of Defense, Schmidt suggested that firms will need to agree between themselves on acceptable norms.

“The industry is going to come to some set of agreements on AI principles — what is appropriate use, what is not — and my guess is that there will be some kind of consensus among key industry players on that,” said Schmidt.

Google has said that the technology it is helping to develop is for “non-offensive uses only” and is intended to flag images captured by surveillance drones for human inspection. However, there is no clear line between this use case and one that will result in fatalities. The Pentagon states that Project Maven’s computer vision tech is intended for deployment in war zones like Iraq and Syria.

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