WASHINGTON – The Russian Ministry of Defense said it formed a department dedicated to developing weapons that use artificial intelligence. The announcement was made Aug. 17 by Alexander Osadchu, the head of Russia's military's innovative development department, at the Army 2022 summit, according to the state-owned news agency TASS. "In order to intensify work on the use of artificial intelligence technologies in the interests of creating models of weapons for military and special equipment, a department for the development of artificial intelligence technologies has been created," he said in a statement. The program could serve to counter the Pentagon's top AI authority, the newly formed Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, which is tasked with expanding the use of AI throughout U.S. the military. The CDAO launched in February and reached full operational capability in June.

Hyderabad: Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL), a defence public sector undertaking, has started developing products for the armed forces using artificial intelligence (AI) with active participation of start-ups. The parliamentary standing committee on defence led by chairman Jual Oram visited BDL here on Friday for a study on'modernisation of defence PSUs'. Chairman and managing director of BDL Commodore Siddharth Mishra said BDL was committed to working towards creation of Atmanirbhar Bharat in the defence sector by modernising its facilities and training its manpower and BDL had entered into an agreement with foreign equipment manufacturers to transfer the technology into India.

Google's declaration of principles for AI is a short but carefully worded text covering the main issues related to the uses of its technology. It is worth reading the document, given that it raises many about the future and the rules we will need to guide us as it evolves. The regulation of artificial intelligence is far from a new subject and is being debated widely; and Google, as a leading player in the field, is simply laying out its position after a long process of reflection. The company had been working on the statement of principles for some time, while it continues to work in other areas of AI. In the wake of revelations about Google's involvement in Maven, most media have interpreted the company's statement of principles somewhat simplistically, along the lines of a promise that its AI won't be used to develop weapons or in breach of human rights, although it is clear that the document has much more far-reaching intentions.

FILE- In this May 8, 2018, file photo, Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, Calif. Google pledges that it will not use artificial intelligence in applications related to weapons or surveillance, part of a new set of principles designed to govern how it uses AI. Those principles, released by Pichai, commit Google to building AI applications that are "socially beneficial," that avoid creating or reinforcing bias and that are accountable to people. Google's declaration of principles for AI is a short but carefully worded text covering the main issues related to the uses of its technology. I would recommend reading the document, given that it raises many about the future and the rules we will need to guide us as it evolves.