{"id":1014104,"date":"2026-06-12T11:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014104"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:54:23","slug":"google-promised-never-to-build-ai-weapons-then-director-rene-mayrhofer-resigned-when-the-tech-giant-broke-that-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/12\/google-promised-never-to-build-ai-weapons-then-director-rene-mayrhofer-resigned-when-the-tech-giant-broke-that-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Google promised never to build AI weapons; then director Ren\u00e9 Mayrhofer resigned when the tech giant broke that promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ren\u00e9 Mayrhofer, a senior Android security official, has quit Google after the tech giant signed a contract giving the US Department of Defense access to its artificial intelligence systems for classified military work.<\/p>\n<p>A senior Google director has resigned in protest over the company&#8217;s decision to supply artificial intelligence technology to the US military, saying the move made his departure &#8220;unavoidable&#8221; and that leadership had abandoned the ethical principles that once defined the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ren\u00e9 Mayrhofer, a senior Android security official, has quit Google after the tech giant signed a contract giving the US Department of Defense access to its artificial intelligence systems for classified military work. A senior Google director has resigned in protest over the company&#8217;s decision to supply artificial intelligence technology to the US military, saying the move made his departure &#8220;unavoidable&#8221; and that leadership had abandoned the ethical principles that once defined the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014105,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014104\/revisions\/1014105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}