Google Busted Helping Pentagon in Developing AI for Drones – Reports

A report from the Gizmodo technology website suggests that Google has partnered with the US Department of Defense to assist it in developing artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze drone footage. According to sources who spoke on conditions of anonymity, Google's involvement in the so-called Project Maven was not public, but was discussed inside the company when information about it was shared on an internal mailing list, sparking concern among employees. The same sources indicated that the employees of the tech giant were furious with the company's decision to offer resources to the military for surveillance technology involved in drone operations. "We have long worked with government agencies to provide technology solutions. This specific project is a pilot with the Department of Defense, to provide open source TensorFlow APIs that can assist in object recognition on unclassified data," a Google spokesperson told Gizmodo.