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The idea triggered a full-scale revolt on the Google campus. Six years ago, the Silicon Valley giant signed a small, $9 million contract to put the skills of a few of its most innovative developers to the task of building an artificial intelligence tool that would help the military detect potential targets on the battlefield using drone footage. Engineers and other Google employees argued that the company should have nothing to do with Project Maven, even if it was designed to help the military discern between civilians and militants. The uproar forced the company to back out, but Project Maven...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A White House Petition was created last week after news broke that a controversial Chinese-American artificial intelligence (AI) expert was hired to serve on Twitter's board and accounts by Chinese dissidents started to disappear. On May 11, Twitter in a press release announced that it was hiring Li Fei-Fei (李飛飛), an AI expert and former Vice President of Google, to its board of directors as a "new independent director" with immediate effect. Li quit Google in 2018 after a trail of leaked internal emails revealed that she appeared to be more concerned about the public relations...