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Google has:
They quietly dropped their mission statement in 2015, which was "Don't be evil".
When our cities are smoldering ruins and the last of us are living in caves licking fungus off the rocks to survive, remember that we saw it coming, we knew it was coming, we had talked for decades about it coming, we made movies about it coming, but...
We did nothing to stop the robot apocalypse.
- The names, addresses, locations of billions of people. Even if you don't have a smartphone, someone you know does, and you're in their contacts.
- Excellent programmers.
- Facial recognition software.
- Programs that drive machines autonomously (self driving cars).
- An army of robots (they bought Boston Dynamics in 2013, along with several other leading robot companies).
They quietly dropped their mission statement in 2015, which was "Don't be evil".
When our cities are smoldering ruins and the last of us are living in caves licking fungus off the rocks to survive, remember that we saw it coming, we knew it was coming, we had talked for decades about it coming, we made movies about it coming, but...
We did nothing to stop the robot apocalypse.
Fun and interesting video, the killer robot joke is the first five minutes, but it's a lecture on computer thinking.