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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Google publishes major AI governance paper -- and
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lauren Weinstein)
Thu Jul 2 13:06:58 2026
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 09:56:39 -0700
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Google publishes major AI governance paper -- and it stinks
Google published a new White Paper on "A Pragmatic Approach to AI
Governance in America" -- and it's as self-serving as you'd expect. I
won't try to detail the vast number of misleading and oversimplified
statements in the paper (I wonder how much of it was written by AI ...),
but despite its fairly long length it's notable more for what it
doesn't say than what it does say.
And the key takeaway for now, the top line executive summary, is that
(nowhere that I can find) does the paper ever imply that AI firms
should really be legally, financially, and criminally responsible for
damages done by their AI systems. This of course is THE most important
issue affecting most people who use AI (either voluntarily or not).
Even when it comes to issues such as harm to children, Google's
proposed solution seems to be more warnings that are easily ignored
(and keep in mind, most age-verification systems to date continue to
be significantly ineffective and can bring a range of negative
consequences to both children and adults).
AI firms and their managements taking actual responsibility for the
damages done by their AI systems? Doesn't seem to be on Google's
roadmap -- gee, what a surprise.
Google is using the Big Tech playbook to its max -- try to convince
everyone that AI permeating everyone's lives is inevitable and you'd
better learn to like it because nobody is ever really going to hold
the Big Tech firms responsible for the massive damage their AI systems
are doing to society.
Google (and/or its AI) can write a very nice paper. Unfortunately for
them (and the other AI firms) it's actual humans reading it who have
to make the actual decisions, not other AI systems easily misled by
carefully chosen words and prompts.
This war has only begun.
L
The paper:
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/publicpolicy.google/en//resources/a-pragmatic-approach-to-ai-governance-in-america.pdf
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