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The home-brew sweatshirt represented a fusion of two mindsets that can have different priorities \u2015 hacker and sailor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like the hoodie, Heritage is a combination of two worlds: He is acting head of the Defense Innovation Unit &#8211; Experimental, a military project investing in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But despite the peace offering from Heritage, disagreements between the two communities were on display Tuesday at a Defense One conference in Washington, D.C., over the uses of artificial intelligence. Current and former military officials criticized tech-giant Google for \u201ccreating a moral hazard,\u201d by dropping out from a top military program called Project Maven, and called on the company to rethink its decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Project Maven uses machine learning to recognize objects from moving or still imagery,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Article\/Article\/1254719\/project-maven-to-deploy-computer-algorithms-to-war-zone-by-years-end\/\"> according<\/a> to the Defense Department, and that learning could be used to develop targets for drone strikes. But Google reportedly plans on ending its partnership with the program in 2019 after a backlash from the company\u2019s employees, who<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/apr\/04\/google-ceo-drones-ai-war-surveillance\"> argued<\/a> in an open letter signed by more than 3,000 workers that it did not want to \u201cbuild warfare technology.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google employees \u201csay look this data could potentially, down the line, at some point, cause harm to human life. And I say \u2019Yeah. But it might save 500 Americans or 500 allies, or 500 innocent civilians from being attacked,\u201d said Robert Work, the former deputy secretary of defense, at the conference. 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It is a regression for top intelligence officials, who last week said it needs to work with the private sector to defend against cyberattacks and other threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe government has to figure out how we get good at finishing with the commercial entities,\u201d said Rob Joyce, senior adviser at the NSA, adding the public sector should be playing a supporting role for the private sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other officials warned that the standards for AI needed to be lowered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For AI \u201cto have to be perfect is not going to work. 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