Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance – The Washington Post

Google’s principles restricting national security use cases for AI had made it an outlier among leading AI developers. Late last year, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said it would work with military manufacturer Anduril to develop technology for the Pentagon. Anthropic, which offers the chatbot Claude, announced a partnership with defense contractor Palantir to help U.S. intelligence and defense agencies access versions of Claude through Amazon Web Services. Google’s rival tech giants Microsoft and Amazon have long partnered with the Pentagon.[…]

Google’s policy change is a company shift in line with a view within the tech industry, embodied by President Donald Trump’s top adviser Elon Musk, that companies should be working in service of U.S. national interests. It also follows moves by tech giants to publicly disavow their previous commitment to race and gender equality and workforce diversity, policies opposed by the Trump administration.