For some reason I'm just seeing a headline with no hyperlink. Here's the link if anyone else has the same issue

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/

didn’t they remove “do no evil” a long time ago, too?

The canary has died.

Of course they would

The Google Graveyard will be littered with the bodies of people now. Fuck them, move to something better for the world.

https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle

~~Don't be evil~~

Can we check and compare with archive.org?

"~~Don't~~ be evil"

This clearly means the AI will be used for fire solutions and guidance, right?

^Not^ ^threat^ ^detection^ ^and^ ^target^ ^identification,^ ^right?^

Well yeah, gotta be open to those sweet ~~defense~~ offense contracts. All those brown people on the other side of the world ain't gunna kill themselves!

B-b-but the corporations promised!

Corporations are people, my friend.

Sociopathic people.

Does Google not know what a "pledge" is?

They're trying to fix that Q4 earnings report already...

We pledge this until we change our mind

Every large corporation ever

“Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.”

• Groucho Marx

I remember when the motto was do no evil, now it is we promise not to make killer robots.

RIP
Killed by Google [AI]

Maybe they should change their name to "Pacific Bell" something fitting like that. Or AT&T. Or Maybe something a little more adjusted to their near future... "Blockbuster"

If there's a conflict and I get to choose whether or not the side I'm on has killbots, I'll definitely choose killbots. Especially if the enemy has them.

When they removed their "don't be evil" motto, I thought it was hilariously bad optics but probably came from some misguided thinking that if they stopped talking about the potential for evil, people would stop wondering whether they had bad motives and needed the motto to keep straight.

It became clearer and clearer that they removed the motto because they felt it was holding them back from greater profits and was skewing employee behaviours in ways they didn't want and bringing up objections to policy ideas that they wanted to avoid. It was never about the optics, it was about the profits.

Now, when Google removes a pledge not to make portable killer AIs and skynet, you have to accept that it's because they see making portable killer AIs and skynet as hugely profitable for them, and they don't want any good intentions or moral behaviour getting in the way of that profit.

OP please edit your post to put the link in correctly https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/