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Google has dropped out of a contest to provide the Pentagon with AI resources to power autonomous drone swarms by voice.
Google withdrew from the Pentagon's drone swarm AI contest after an internal ethics review.
KEY POINTS
- Google cited insufficient resourcing as its official reason, despite advancing past the first round.
- The Pentagon seeks AI software that allows plain language voice control of autonomous multi-domain drone swarms.
- Despite its withdrawal, Google maintains a separate $200 million open-ended AI contract with the Pentagon.
- Anthropic's refusal to loosen AI safety guardrails led the Pentagon to terminate their partnership and label it a supply chain risk.
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