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Google chose not to renew its “Project Maven” contract to provide artificial intelligence (A.I) capabilities to the U.S. Department of Defense after employee dissent reached a boiling point. Google is currently in an arm-wrestling match with Amazon and Microsoft for government contracts worth around $10B. China and Europe are already investing heavily in A.I for defense. Russia is also headed for an offensively-mind weaponised AI. We don’t need to look far back into our history to know what nations would do if a weaponised AI created: once an advantage has been gained, how does a nation convey that such a nation is back on the menu?