Posted on 08/02/2019 9:08:38 PM PDT by onyx
Peter Thiel is doubling down on his criticism of Google. The Silicon Valley investor wrote in a New York Times op-ed Thursday that the search giant is hurting the US by sharing its artificial intelligence technology with China.
Thiel, one of President Donald Trump's highest-profile supporters in the tech industry, said it's "shocking" that Google would work with a rival country, because AI is such a beneficial military tool.
He wrote that AI is "valuable to any army -- to gain an intelligence advantage, for example, or to penetrate defenses in the relatively new theater of cyberwarfare, where we are already living amid the equivalent of a multinational shooting war."
He also points to an AI lab Google opened in Beijing two years ago, as well as the company's decision to stop work with the Pentagon on Project Maven, an initiative that uses AI to improve the analysis of drone footage. Google decided not to renew its contract after its employees protested the project. Soon after, CEO Sundar Pichai released a set of guidelines that said Google wouldn't develop AI for weapons but would still work with the US military.
Google declined to comment on the op-ed. But in the past, the company has noted that it doesn't work with the Chinese military.
Thiel's comments come weeks after he accused Google of having a "seemingly treasonous" relationship with China and urged a probe by the FBI and CIA. After Thiel's comments, Trump tweeted that he would "take a look."
Last week, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he met with Pichai to discuss the company's work in China. After the meeting, Mnuchin said he has no security concerns about Google's work in the country. Two days later, though, Trump tweeted that there "may or may not" be security concerns.
Don’t be evil! Ha! Be careful Sergey Brin looking over my shoulder when I’m surfin for porn. You’ll put yer eye out.
Technology boycotts on China, just like the old Soviet Union, should be established as we finalize our economic divorce.
Precisely.
I’ve dropped google search.
Gone back to BING where I found this article.
Sounds like a bunch of Goolag employees need Sudden Hemp Obstructive Pulmonary Disease [SHOPD].
The Deplorables can help with that...
Anything that Goolag says is a lie.
Yup!
Big tech doesn’t care about freedom, doesn’t care about America.
Or Americans.
YOU’RE RIGHT!
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US social media has an emerging NOMENKLATURA system, and if your name is on the LIST of Thought Crime Persons, then it's okay for everyone to publicly threaten you with DEATH.
Google are lightweights.
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What in the world are you trying to say?
I remember years ago people vilified US companies that did business with Nazi Germany before open war broke out; at the time I pointed out that companies with names like INTERNATIONAL Business Machines saw no borders or politics, just money.
Same sh!t today; morality doesn’t even enter the discussion. That should have become clear when we recognized Red China and started building them up into the global power they are today; do you really think our elites view them or their politics as problematic? OUR LEADERS ENVY THEM, and are trying to imitate their methods here.
I view Google as an agent of the Chinese Communist Party.
Their preferences in election results are the tell.
Google is operating far beyond borders. National loyalty is no doubt an inconvenience at this point.
The Global Dreamers may believe they’re doing the right thing, but it’s not gonna happen in our lifetime. And we shouldn’t have to suffer the One World fantasy the dreamers are selling.
Google working with the enemy, not good
Google does not see itself aligned with any particular country.
All the big techs see themselves as “supra countries” of their own.
Eventually People will be forced to owe allegiance to them instead of countries.
google willingly directed its powerful programming team to create code to enforce china’s totalitarian dictatorship rules.
The obvious conclusion is that google will deploy their new tools, with appropriate modifications, in various other countries including the USA.
The management team of google should be in a turkish prison.
Google was born in America now is working with opposition forces in the demise of America....
Just like BHO.
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