United Kingdom, Feb. 5 -- Google has wiped its guidelines about not using AI for surveillance and weapons.

The tech giant's parent company, Alphabet, had previously vowed that it would never develop technology that would "cause or are likely to cause overall harm".

However, the guidelines have now been amended, and the pledge has been removed.

The section stated that Google would never use applications "that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms."

The company now says it will apply "appropriate human oversight, due diligence, and feedback mechanisms to align with user goals, social responsibility, and widely accepted principles of international law and human rights."

The AI principles wer...