After Google scrubbed wording that promised not to use AI for weapons, some staff slammed the decision in the company's internal message board.

Google changed its public AI policies to remove assertions it would not develop AI applied to surveillance or weapons.

Google has made one of the most substantive changes to its AI principles since first publishing them in 2018. In a change spotted by The Washington Post, the search giant edited the document to remove pledges it had made promising it would not "design or deploy" AI tools for use in weapons or surveillance technology.