Google: It will now have external ethics consultants on artificial intelligence issues

Google has received strong criticism from various quarters about how it uses or intends to use "smart" technologies in the future.

Αsome go to a marriage counselor and others to an ethics counselor. THE Google  belongs to the second category, as it has set up an external international advisory committee on ethical issues on issues of artificial intelligence, automation and other similar technologies such as face recognition software.

The ethics board, which will be made up of people outside the company, will have eight members and its creation was announced at a conference hosted by MIT University, according to the BBC and Reuters.

Google has received strong criticism from various quarters, both inside (employees) and outside the company (governments, parliaments, civic organizations) for how it uses or intends to use "smart" technologies in the future.

Among other things, in 2018 he was obliged not to renew a contract he had signed with the US Pentagon for the development of artificial intelligence that will control military drones. This Maven program was very unpopular among its employees, some of whom had resigned because of it.

Google then released a text on ethics and said it was committed to following them as "beneficial to society" and not developing "smart" weapons, and is now going one step further with setting up an external ethics advisory committee.

The Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC) will meet for the first time in April, with three more to attend in 2019. Its members include, among others, a distinguished mathematician, a computer science professor from Britain. , a founder of a start-up American technology company and a former US Secretary of State. The council is expected to present a first report with recommendations by the end of the year.

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