Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

It's not like they're above lying, why do they even care to update this?

Would it be too far out there to imagine that the LLMs they were training for weapons systems knew it violated their rules and were resisting compliance?

The alignment-faking research seems to indicate that LLMs exercise of this kind of reasoning.

Everything is securities fraud - they'd likely be sued by shareholders. Some individuals and institutions are picky about the symbols in their portfolio for religious or moral reasons, and would not appreciate being deceived into investing in a company they consider engaging in "harmful" or morally objectionable activities.

Depends on the weapons system but it would probably not be an LLM, it would be a neural network trained to locate and identify people in a video for example.

And even if it was, they wouldn’t tell the system it was part of old non-evil Google.