The letter asked Google CEO Sandor Pachchay to withdraw Google from the project. This project uses artificial intelligence to analyze video and can improve drones' goals. In addition, they urge the CEO to establish and implement a The policy is to make the company or its affiliates never produce 'war technology'.
If this is a baseline for their cooperation, it may involve a lot of things, such as this policy may include the company to provide only Google technology for government agencies.
Last month, well-known technology blogger Gizmodo reported the news, saying that Google will lend the company's AI TensorFlow programming kit to the Pentagon Maven project. According to insiders, Google employees were angered because the government will use it to improve the Man-machine military operations.
The Pentagon announced the Maven project for the first time in May of last year. This is the next generation of machine-learning applications to get 'operable' intelligence faster through big data. Some of these are for automated management tasks, but Google's artificial intelligence technology will improve the system. Ability to analyze video and can be used to better identify targets and civilians.
Although Google participates in the Pentagon project's insistence on its 'non-offensive' position, Google employees stated in a letter to Pichchai that involvement in the matter would damage the company’s brand.
According to the "New York Times" report, in Google's internal petition, wrote: 'Because people are increasingly worried about the prejudice and artificial weapons of artificial intelligence, Google is already at stake in maintaining public trust.' 'Although other companies, Microsoft and Amazon, for example, are also involved in the project, but this will not reduce the risk of Google's participation. Google has a unique history, its motto is not evil, and Google is directly involved with the lives of hundreds of millions of users.