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Fog moved page Maven-drone to Project "Maven" - Participation of Google in US drone assassination program: more explicit
==Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Lucrative Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially - june 2018 ==
https://theintercept.com/2018/05/31/google-leaked-emails-drone-ai-pentagon-lucrative/
<blockquote>The contract was “only” for $9 million, according to the New York Times, a relatively minor project for such a large company.
The Intercept tell a different story... Google’s business development arm expected the military drone artificial intelligence revenue to ramp up from an initial $15 million to an eventual $250 million per year.
In fact, one month after news of the contract broke, the Pentagon allocated an additional $100 million to Project Maven.
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== How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google - The New York Times - may 2018 ==
https://nytimes.com/2018/05/30/technology/google-project-maven-pentagon.html
<blockquote>The internal debate over Maven, viewed by both supporters and opponents as opening the door to much bigger defense contracts, generated a petition signed by about 4,000 employees who demanded “a clear policy stating that neither Google nor its contractors will ever build warfare technology.
../..The clash inside Google was sparked by the possibility that the Maven work might be used for lethal drone targeting. And the discussion is made more urgent by the fact that artificial intelligence, one of Google’s strengths, is expected to play an increasingly central role in warfare..../...</blockquote>
== Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones - Gizmodo - March 2018 ==
