Amid warnings, UK defence lab forms Google AI pact

A UK government defence lab has struck a partnership with Google Cloud that includes AI, conjuring forth exactly the sort of images of killer robots that people have been warning about.
To be fair to the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), its CEO Paul Hollinshead insisted in a statement that his lab is committed to “safe and responsible AI.”
Nonetheless, Dstl is very keen to work with Google to accelerate the adoption of AI in the UK defence sector, ergo the two hav