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Google’s pilot project with the [[Defense Department]]’s Project Maven, an effort to identify objects in drone footage, was discussed widely within the company when information about the project was shared on an internal mailing list. Some Google employees were outraged that the company would offer resources to the military for [[surveillance]] technology involved in drone operations while others argued that the project raised important [[ethical]] questions about the development and use of machine learning.

Google’s pilot project with the [[Defense Department]]’s Project Maven, an effort to identify objects in drone footage, was discussed widely within the company when information about the project was shared on an internal mailing list. Some Google employees were outraged that the company would offer resources to the military for [[surveillance]] technology involved in drone operations while others argued that the project raised important [[ethical]] questions about the development and use of machine learning.

Schmidt summed up the tech industry’s concerns about collaborating with the [[Pentagon]], “There’s a general concern in the tech community of somehow the [[military-industrial complex]] using their stuff to [[kill]] people incorrectly," leaving unanswered the question or the "correct" or proper way to kill people.<ref>https://gizmodo.com/google-is-helping-the-pentagon-build-ai-for-drones-1823464533</ref>

Schmidt summed up the tech industry’s concerns about collaborating with the [[Pentagon]], “There’s a general concern in the tech community of somehow the [[military-industrial complex]] using their stuff to [[kill]] people incorrectly," leaving unanswered the question of the "correct" or proper way to kill people.<ref>https://gizmodo.com/google-is-helping-the-pentagon-build-ai-for-drones-1823464533</ref>

==See also==

==See also==