Documents show Google Cloud will be used for its AI capabilities by the CBP in conjunction with Anduril Industries' surveillance tech on the US-Mexico border
The Intercept : Tweets: @lhfang , @samfbiddle , @thedailymao , @raicestexas , @evan_greer , @aaschapiro , @laikenjordahl , @emeryjohnr , @noahpinion , @ethicalgooglers , @william_fitz , @samfbiddle , @samfbiddle , and @mer__edith Tweets: Lee Fang / @lhfang : New: Google's AI tech will be used for virtual border wall built by Anduril Industries https://theintercept.com/... Sam Biddle / @samfbiddle : NEW: Contract documents obtained via FOIA show Google is selling its AI technology to CBP, where it will be used to help the “virtual wall” effort by Peter Thiel-backed Anduril Industries https://theintercept.com/... @thedailymao : Google AI to be used for a border wall and mass surveillance of ethnic minorities - the exact same purpose for which the US regime placed sanctions on Chinese tech firm Megvii https://twitter.com/... Raices / @raicestexas : This is horrifying. We've reached a dystopian society. #DontLookAway https://theintercept.com/... Evan Greer / @evan_greer : Google loves to talk about “ethics in AI.” Turns out they think helping US Border Patrol commit atrocities is totally ethical. https://theintercept.com/... Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro : “Google is comfortable...surveilling migrants through their Cloud AI, despite their AI Principles claims to not causing harm,” said @_jack_poulson. “Their..strategy is to enjoy the high profit margin of cloud services while avoiding any accountability” https://theintercept.com/... Laiken Jordahl / @laikenjordahl : Did you know @Google will soon be powering technology on the U.S./Mexico border that violates human rights pushes migrants to their deaths? This should be bigger news. https://theintercept.com/... John R Emery / @emeryjohnr : Looks like Google's AI principles fall short in their teaming up with their team up with the ultimate unethical tech bro to make a virtual border wall. Brilliant...... https://twitter.com/... Noah Smith / @noahpinion : Despite its employees' concerns, I still hold to my prediction that Google will ultimately become a nationalistic company, which will help it avoid attacks from both sides of the political spectrum. https://twitter.com/... @ethicalgooglers : One year later, we now find out things have gotten even worse. We call on Google to cancel this contract and commit to #NoGCPforCBP. We know public pressure works. Something has to give. #NoTechForICE https://theintercept.com/... https://twitter.com/... William Fitzgerald / @william_fitz : Wow. Google is in business w/CBP & Palmer Luckey. The Google cloud AI team who has this contract is same team who had Maven contract. Maven was using image AI to target drones at people & cars, this is to target people coming here to seek a safe haven. https://theintercept.com/... Sam Biddle / @samfbiddle : Google's “AI Principles” ostensibly prohibit “technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.” Google tech will now be used along the southern border, a hot spot of violations of both international law and human rights. Sam Biddle / @samfbiddle : Last year roughly 1,500 Google employees signed a petition demanding that the company avoid exactly this: Helping the Trump administration militarize and persistently surveil the southern border https://medium.com/... Meredith Whittaker / @mer__edith : What's the value of an “ethics review process that's almost entirely non-transparent to workers, let alone the public? Who's making these decisions? And how can these AI principles allow collaboration w an agency engaged in human rights abuses” I said https://theintercept.com/...
NEW: Contract documents obtained via FOIA show Google is selling its AI technology to CBP, where it will be used to help the “virtual wall” effort by Peter Thiel-backed Anduril Industries https://theintercept.com/...
Google AI to be used for a border wall and mass surveillance of ethnic minorities - the exact same purpose for which the US regime placed sanctions on Chinese tech firm Megvii https://twitter.com/...
Despite its employees' concerns, I still hold to my prediction that Google will ultimately become a nationalistic company, which will help it avoid attacks from both sides of the political spectrum. https://twitter.com/...
Google loves to talk about “ethics in AI.” Turns out they think helping US Border Patrol commit atrocities is totally ethical. https://theintercept.com/...
“Google is comfortable...surveilling migrants through their Cloud AI, despite their AI Principles claims to not causing harm,” said @_jack_poulson. “Their..strategy is to enjoy the high profit margin of cloud services while avoiding any accountability” https://theintercept.com/..…
One year later, we now find out things have gotten even worse. We call on Google to cancel this contract and commit to #NoGCPforCBP. We know public pressure works. Something has to give. #NoTechForICE https://theintercept.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Google's “AI Principles” ostensibly prohibit “technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.” Google tech will now be used along the southern border, a hot spot of violations of both international law and human rights.
Wow. Google is in business w/CBP & Palmer Luckey. The Google cloud AI team who has this contract is same team who had Maven contract. Maven was using image AI to target drones at people & cars, this is to target people coming here to seek a safe haven. https://theintercept.com/..…
Did you know @Google will soon be powering technology on the U.S./Mexico border that violates human rights pushes migrants to their deaths? This should be bigger news. https://theintercept.com/...
Looks like Google's AI principles fall short in their teaming up with their team up with the ultimate unethical tech bro to make a virtual border wall. Brilliant...... https://twitter.com/...
Last year roughly 1,500 Google employees signed a petition demanding that the company avoid exactly this: Helping the Trump administration militarize and persistently surveil the southern border https://medium.com/...
What's the value of an “ethics review process that's almost entirely non-transparent to workers, let alone the public? Who's making these decisions? And how can these AI principles allow collaboration w an agency engaged in human rights abuses” I said https://theintercept.com/...