# Google publishes AI Principles after the Maven revolt

Date: 2018

## The fact

On 7 June 2018 Google published AI Principles, including a pledge not to design AI for weapons, a completed policy PDF under [Pichai](/people/sundar-pichai) after Project Maven protests.

## Context

Neighbouring Maven is the same year’s defence file. Neighbouring 2025 rollback is later. He did not write an UN CCW protocol.

Maven 2018 is neighbouring defence contract. Principles rollback 2025 is later. Pentagon Gemini 2026 is later deal.

Sundar Pichai has been CEO of Google since 10 August 2015 and of Alphabet since 3 December 2019. He does not write a Sherman Act complaint, a Commission DMA article, a CAC circular, or a Pentagon contract clause by himself as a civil servant. A keynote is not a completed breakup. A liability opinion is not a Chrome sale. A layoff round is not a unique unemployment coefficient as his personal tally. TPU trains; TSMC and partners fabricate; App Review analogues on Play enforce. Keep those dates separate. An AI Principle PDF is not a completed weapons ban. A settlement is not a verdict. [Larry Page](/people/larry-page) is a different person. Sergey Brin is a different person.

## Evidence and sources

Google carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [ai-regulation-intensity](/drivers/ai-regulation-intensity) and [democratic-resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed public pledge is an attempted self-regulation instrument later rolled back. A PDF is not a statute.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 7 June 2018 AI Principles publication, independently reported.

Not established: that weapons work ended forever, or a unique later casualty coefficient from the blog post.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Employees had walked. Pentagon sat as a neighbouring customer. Later 2025 text changes are other dates.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Google publishes AI Principles after the Maven revolt, not a later speech about Google publishes AI Principles after the Maven revolt.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Google publishes AI Principles after the Maven revolt on 2018-06-07 is not a licence to treat every later Google communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Google publishes AI Principles after the Maven revolt into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He published as CEO. Employees had walked. Pentagon sat as a neighbouring customer. Later 2025 text changes are other dates. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Sundar Pichai: https://factrail.ai/people/sundar-pichai

## Drivers

- AI-Regulation Intensity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/ai-regulation-intensity
- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-ai-principles-idUSKCN1J30K4
- https://ai.google/principles/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/goog-ai-principles-2018