Sundar Pichai published "AI at Google: our principles," setting out seven principles for the company's AI work along with four areas it would not pursue. Those excluded "weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people," technologies that "gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms," and technologies "whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights." The document was Google's answer to the internal protest over Project Maven, and Pichai was explicit that the company would continue working with governments and militaries in other areas such as cybersecurity, training, and search and rescue. As one of the first instances of a major AI company publicly declaring what it would refuse to build, it became a template for comparable policies elsewhere.