Letter: 100+ Google DeepMind and other AI employees urge Jeff Dean to block US military deals that use Gemini for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons
More than 100 Google A.I. employees sent a letter to Jeff Dean, a chief scientist, opposing Gemini's use for U.S. surveillance and some autonomous weapons.
New York Times Tripp Mickle
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Discussion
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@sammcallister
Sam Mcallister
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Proud to see the support of our colleagues at OpenAI and Google DeepMind. https://notdivided.org/
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@theophite
Rev. Howard Arson
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if you are one of these people, as I was, you can afford to quit your job. [embedded post]
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@bdowney
Brandon Downey
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The era of Goog caring about doing the right thing at a leadership level is done, but glad to see Googlers realize what a precipice they're on. Interestingly, it's possible to be an AI doomer, an AI booster, an AI skeptic, or an AI moderate and still think handing the keys to au…