The giant is struggling with problems related to the creation of artificial intelligence technology for robotic assassins for the Pentagon and a new, censored search engine for China.
The first information about the new project with an enigmatically sounding Dragonfly name appeared last month. There were rumors that Google is creating a new search engine for the Chinese government, which dreams of perfect surveillance of citizens. At that time, Google did not take a position on this matter.
And for a long time we would live in a blissful disinformation, if the representatives of the American Senate Committee did not summon the representative's rug for explanation. Google delegated Keith Enright, director of privacy, to this case. He admitted that the Mountain View giant was actually preparing such a tool for the Central Government, but he did not reveal any details about it.
Enright said only that in the near future the company has no plans to transfer technology to the Chinese. However, he intends to test such solutions. We can therefore expect that once the work has been completed and the search engine has been tested, it will only be a matter of time before Google offers its customers new censorship and surveillance systems according to their needs.
The Senate committee organized a meeting not only in connection with concerns about the security of US citizens and the entire country, but also in response to a letter from former Google researcher Jacek Poulson. He resigned from work on August 31 "as a result of unethical and unreliable decision-making by the company management" related to the preparation of censorship technology, blocking freedom of speech and spying society. In total, hundreds of employees resigned from Google in recent months.
Announced by the former head of the group, Eric Schmidt, the split of the Internet, which is to take place in 10 years, in the face of such a development of events, is becoming more and more real