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The parent company of Google lifted a ban on artificial intelligence (AI) used to develop weapons and monitoring tools after changing its long -term principles.

Alphabet rewritten its instructions on how to use it from artificial intelligence, as it has previously brought down a section that has previously excluded requests that “may cause harm.”

in Blog post Google defended change, on the pretext that democratic companies and governments needed to work together on artificial intelligence “support national security”.

He said: “We believe that democracies should lead to developing artificial intelligence, guiding basic values ​​such as freedom, equality and respect for human rights.

He added: “We believe that companies, governments and institutions that share these values ​​must work together to create artificial intelligence that protects people, enhances global growth and supports national security.”

There is a discussion between artificial and professional intelligence experts on how strong new technology controls wide phrases, the extent of allowing commercial gains to determine its direction, and the best way to protect against risk to humanity in general.

There too Controversy About the use of artificial intelligence in the battlefield and in monitoring techniques.

The blog – written by Senior Vice President James Manica and Dimis Hasabis, who leads the Google DeepMind intelligence factory – said that the original AI principles of the company that was published in 2018 must be updated with the development of technology.

“Billions of people use artificial intelligence in their daily lives. Artificial intelligence has become a technique for general purposes, an countless platform and individuals who use them to build applications.

The blog post said: “I have moved from the topic of a laboratory research to a technology that has become widespread like mobile phones and the Internet itself.”

As a result, the basic AI principles have been developed, which can direct common strategies.

Originally, a long time before increasing the current interest in the ethics of artificial intelligence, Google founders, Sergey Breen and Larry Beige, said their slogan for the company “Don’t be evil”.

When the company was restructured under the name Alphabet Inc in 2015, the parent company turned into “the right thing”.

Since then, Google employees have sometimes retracted against the approach followed by executive officials.

In 2018, The company did not find a contract to make artificial intelligence with the American Pentagon After the resignation and submission of a petition signed by thousands of employees.

They were afraid that “Project Maven” was the first step towards using artificial intelligence for fatal purposes.

The blog was published before the financial report at the end of the year in Alphabet, indicating the results that were weaker than the market expectations, and the price of its share declined.

This was despite the increase of 10 % in revenue from the digital advertisement, the largest, which was reinforced by the spending on the American elections.

In its profit report, the company said it would spend $ 75 billion ($ 60 billion) on artificial intelligence projects this year, more than 29 % of what Wall Street analysts expected.

The company invests in the infrastructure to operate artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence research, and applications such as the research in which artificial intelligence works.