The pledge unveiled by the Algorithmic Justice League and Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University asks companies not to provide facial AI for autonomous weapons or sell to law enforcement unless explicit laws are debated and passed to allow it.
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Microsoft wins $480 million Army battlefield contract for HoloLens
The contract, which could eventually lead to the military purchasing over 100,000 augmented reality headsets, makes the Army one of Microsoft’s most important HoloLens consumers
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