More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work
“The only way to guarantee that Google does not become associated with such harms is to reject any classified workloads. Otherwise, such uses may occur without our knowledge or the power to stop them,” the letter said. — www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...Forums:r/technology:Google staff urge chief executive to block US military AI user/ArtificialInteligence:Google staff urge chief executive to block US military AI user/google:Google staff urge chief executive to block US military AI use
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Google should be legally allowed to fire all these people immediately, tbh
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Over three million uniformed and civilian personnel now have access to Google's new Gemini for Government models on https://genai.mil/. Warfighters are actively transforming @DeptofWar operations to be faster and more efficient, condensing critical project timelines from [image]
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@GoogleDeepMind @sundarpichai of course it's still a minority of even DeepMind employees who are willing to take the risk of disagreeing with management. Back in 2018, the anti-Maven protest was joined by thousands of Googlers
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@GoogleDeepMind @sundarpichai this is the loudest Google workers have been opposing the company for a long time. The protests against its work with Israel didn't attract these kinds of numbers, this issue has a lot broader support inside the company
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proud of my x-coworkers ✊🏻 — “The only way to guarantee that Google does not become associated with such harms is to reject any classified workloads. Otherwise, such uses may occur without our knowledge or the power to stop them,” the letter said. — www.washingtonpost.com/te…
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