Google could soon provide ethics service to companies building AI solutions

Google could soon offer an ethics consultation service to companies building Artificial Techlogy solutions. According to a report in Wired, search giant may soon offer service to companies developing AI projects. report suggests that Google might launch service before end of 2020 and initially, it would offer only advice on tasks such as spotting racial bias or creating guidelines to govern AI projects. American multinational may in future also offer or services such as audits of AI systems, etc. 

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Google's own ethics-based controversies

Google's plan to offer ethics advice to companies building AI solutions is being mocked even before it could be officially launched and re is a reason for that. Google doesn't have a good track record when it comes to company's own ethics policy as it has been mired in several controversies in past few years.

In 2015, company had to apologise for a technical glitch in its Photos app that identified Black people as gorillas. In 2018, company face backlash from its own employees after agreeing to develop surveillance software for US defence department. 

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California-based company in 2018 reportedly tested a secret search engine it had developed for China, an authoritarian country where content is censored and monitored by State. Company's CEO Sundar Pichai had even testified for same in US Congress, where he admitted that Google was working on a search engine for China.

Following se controversies, company issued a set of ethical principal for use of its AI. Big companies pay Google for cloud computing services and as per reports some of m are already taking ethical help for firm, which may have possibly prompted Alphabet Inc-owned to dive into it. 

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