On Tuesday, Google dropped from its “AI Principles” page its pledge not to pursue ventures that “cause overall harm,” applications for “weapons,” applications for “surveillance,” or pursuits that conflict with “international law and human rights.”

Amid the rescinding of principles, a pair of Google executives also issued a blog post on Tuesday, stating that the new policy going forward needed to be competitive with the “increasingly complex geopolitical landscape.”

The AI principles were first introduced in 2018, according to Wired, as a rebuff to quell internal protests at the technology company over a contract to work on a United States drone program. But the protest was apparently successful. Google declined to renew the contract for the drone program and announced a set of AI principles.

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