Parmy Olson, Columnist

Google Has Made a Dangerous U-Turn on Military AI

Abandoning its principles could lead to escalating conflicts. Governments need to step up.

February 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM GMT+9

Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World.”

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Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” era is well and truly dead.

Having replaced that motto in 2018 with the softer “Do the right thing,” the leadership at parent company Alphabet Inc. has now rolled back one of the firm’s most important ethical stances, on the use of its artificial intelligence by the military.

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