For some reason I’m just seeing a headline with no hyperlink. Here’s the link if anyone else has the same issue
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/
Yea, it’s just the title and no link. To the top with you for the source!
didn’t they remove “do no evil” a long time ago, too?
We pledge this until we change our mind
Every large corporation ever
Like my organization that pledged to be 100% renewable energy based by 2025 and they promised that right up until early 2024, where it suddenly disappeared from the internal website, and now no one talks about it.
But in fairness they made absolutely zero progress towards this goal in the previous 4 years, so it was pretty obvious they never really meant it anyway.
Every corporate pledge ends with “unless we can monetise it”.
The canary has died.
The canary died back when they removed “don’t be evil”. I think the canary was just resurrected as a Horizon Zero Dawn mech canary.
When they removed their “don’t be evil” motto, I thought it was hilariously bad optics but probably came from some misguided thinking that if they stopped talking about the potential for evil, people would stop wondering whether they had bad motives and needed the motto to keep straight.
It became clearer and clearer that they removed the motto because they felt it was holding them back from greater profits and was skewing employee behaviours in ways they didn’t want and bringing up objections to policy ideas that they wanted to avoid. It was never about the optics, it was about the profits.
Now, when Google removes a pledge not to make portable killer AIs and skynet, you have to accept that it’s because they see making portable killer AIs and skynet as hugely profitable for them, and they don’t want any good intentions or moral behaviour getting in the way of that profit.
The Google Graveyard will be littered with the bodies of people now. Fuck them, move to something better for the world.
Corporations are people, my friend.
Sociopathic people.
This clearly means the AI will be used for fire solutions and guidance, right?
Not threat detection and target identification, right?
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Don’t be evilDon’tbe evil.Don’t beevil.Don’t, be evil.
I don’t think they understand the meaning of the word pledge lol.
Can we check and compare with archive.org?
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Don’tbe evil”Well, that’s…… ominous.
And sorta SkyNet’ish.
“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.”
- Groucho Marx
