After the backlash over its participation in projects like Project Maven and Dragonfly, Google will no longer pursue a $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract.
“While we are working to support the US government with our cloud in many areas, we are not bidding on the JEDI contract because first, we couldn’t be assured that it would align with our AI Principles and second, we determined that there were portions of the contract that were out of scope with our current government certifications,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement.
Earlier this year, Google faced employee pressure to drop out of Project Maven, which was set to build AI systems that can process and analyze drone footage for the Pentagon.
