- On Tuesday, Google announced that it has established a formal process to review new AI-based initiatives that involve sensitive policy questions.
- According to the report, one hundred reviews have been conducted so far, including a review of its facial recognition API which the company decided to sideline.
- A Google spokesperson confirmed with Business Insider that Project Dragonfly its effort to build a censored search product for China did not face the scrutiny of the newly announced review process.
In the wake of reports that Google didn't follow normal procedure in the development of a censored search product for China with execs said to have circumvented standard company procedures and shut out important legal and security staffers from deliberations the search giant has announced a revamping of its internal review processes.