The 'father of the internet' says that Google employee backlash to its defense work was just 'a lot of misunderstanding' (GOOGL)

Dec 14 2018 by Business Insider

 

Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, this week defended Google's work on Project Maven — its controversial pilot program with the Pentagon.  Employee objections to the work, which involved developing artificial-intelligence technologies for use by the Defense Department, were based on a misunderstanding of the nature of the work, said Cerf, who is Google's chief internet evangelist. But the company could have been more transparent about what it was doing, he acknowledged.

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