Google
Violated
Catastrophic
Primary evidence
Military
Google: 'We will not design or deploy AI for weapons'
Made 2018-06-07 · Audience: Employees
The promise
“We will not design or deploy AI in the following application areas: … Weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people.”
After internal protests over Project Maven, Google published seven AI Principles including a categorical ban on AI for weapons. In February 2025 the company quietly removed the prohibitions on weapons and surveillance from the same page.
What actually happened (2 sourced violations)
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#1
2025-02-04
2,433 days later
primary evidence
Google removes the prohibitions against using AI for weapons and surveillance from its public AI Principles page.
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#2
2024-04-12
2,135 days later
primary evidence
Reporting confirms Google's Project Nimbus contract supplies AI infrastructure to the Israeli military, including units engaged in active combat operations.
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