谷歌前员工揭露#美国政府曾计划将谷歌人工智能应用于无人机

2022-06-17 11:54:36.0

 2017年9月，谷歌获得了五角大楼Maven项目的合同。根据该合同计划，谷歌将帮助美国军方使用人工智能和机器学习快速分析无人机素材，谷歌将会根据美军无人机拍摄的素材建立一个监测系统，让五角大楼的分析师能监控“整个城市的”车辆、人员、地貌和人群。

随着大量员工持续两个月的抵制，谷歌在2018年最终放弃了这个每年潜在收入达上亿美元的军事 AI 项目。

谷歌员工曝光此事后，引起大规模反对。超过3000名员工签署了一份请愿书，要求谷歌取消该项目合同；数十名员工辞职以示抗议，劳拉·诺兰（Laura Nolan）就是其中之一。当听闻谷歌利用公司开发的软件协助美国政府的无人机在海外开展军事行动，她决定不参与这个项目，并用辞职来表达抗议。

In September 2017, Google won the Project MAVEN contract from the Pentagon. Under the plan, Google was to build a monitoring system based on footage taken by U.S. drones and help the U.S. military quickly evaluate footage using artificial intelligence and machine learning. Pentagon analysts were to monitor images of vehicles, people, land features and large crowds of an "entire city."

After two months of resistance from a large number of employees, Google abandoned the military AI field in 2018, giving up the potential to earn hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

Google employees have exposed the matter, and it has caused large-scale opposition. More than 3,000 employees signed a petition demanding that Google cancel the contract, and dozens of employees resigned to show their stance. Laura Nolan, a software engineer, was among them. When she heard that Google was developing software to assist the U.S. government's drones in military operations overseas, she decided not to participate in the project and protested with her resignation.