Promise vs Reality

Documented Lies

Public commitments that were later broken, quietly abandoned, or contradicted on the record. Each entry pairs the promise — with its primary source — against the documented violations that followed.

1 documented promise
Google Violated Catastrophic Primary evidence Military
Google: 'We will not design or deploy AI for weapons'
Said: “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.”
Promised 2018-06-07 Audience: Employees 2 sourced violations Most recent breach 2025-02-04
Source: Google AI Principles, 7 June 2018 (archived) ↗