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Brevard County Awarded $125,000 Defense Grant By Florida Defense Support Task Force
Space Coast Daily 23 Aug 2019
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Alaska's congressional delegation is looking into 'troubling' Pentagon decision to cancel missile project
Stars and Stripes 23 Aug 2019
The Pentagon canceled the Boeing contract for the project last week amid concerns about unstated design flaws associated with the missiles, which are designed to strike down incoming threats as North Korea, China and Russia take steps to advance their missile capabilities ... military adapting to new threats....
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Google doesn’t want staff debating politics at work anymore
Advertising Age 23 Aug 2019
“Our primary responsibility is to do the work we’ve each been hired to do.” ... Some employees have used internal chat boards to rally other workers against some Google projects, helping push the company to end work on a censored search engine for the Chinese market and an artificial intelligence contract for the U.S. military ... —Bloomberg News ....
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Meet the Researchers Working to Make Sure Artificial Intelligence Is a Force for Good
Time Magazine 23 Aug 2019
For many of those small companies (and quite a few larger ones) the objective is straightforward ... In 2018, some Google employees, led in part by Whittaker (who worked at the search giant until earlier this summer) organized in opposition to Project Maven, a Pentagon contract to design AI image recognition software for military drones....
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Big tech ‘putting world at risk of killer AI’: study
Taipei Times 22 Aug 2019
Twenty-two companies were of “medium concern,” while 21 fell into a “high concern” category, notably Amazon and Microsoft, which are both bidding for a US$10 billion Pentagon contract to provide the cloud infrastructure for the US military ... The development of AI for military purposes has triggered debates and protest within the industry....
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Amazon, Microsoft Are 'Putting World At Risk of Killer AI,' Says Study
Slashdot 22 Aug 2019
whether they were developing technology that could be relevant to deadly AI, whether they were working on related military projects, and if they had committed to abstaining from contributing in the future ... military ... Army contract for an augmented reality headset, HoloLens, that aims at "increasing lethality" on the battlefield....
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Amazon, MS 'putting world at risk of killer AI': study
Deccan Herald 22 Aug 2019
Twenty-two companies were of "medium concern," while 21 fell into a "high concern" category, notably Amazon and Microsoft who are both bidding for a $10 billion Pentagon contract to provide the cloud infrastructure for the US military ... The development of AI for military purposes has triggered debates and protest within the industry....
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Amazon, Microsoft, ‘putting world at risk of killer AI’: study
Arab News 22 Aug 2019
Twenty-two companies were of “medium concern,” while 21 fell into a “high concern” category, notably Amazon and Microsoft who are both bidding for a $10 billion Pentagon contract to provide the cloud infrastructure for the US military ... The development of AI for military purposes has triggered debates and protest within the industry....
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Amazon, Microsoft, 'putting world at risk of killer AI': study
Gulf News 22 Aug 2019
Twenty-two companies were of "medium concern," while 21 fell into a "high concern" category, notably Amazon and Microsoft who are both bidding for a $10 billion Pentagon contract to provide the cloud infrastructure for the US military ... The development of AI for military purposes has triggered debates and protest within the industry....
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