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In 2018, 4,000 Google employees killed a Pentagon contract. In 2026, Google signed a bigger one. Now the AI researchers are unionising

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In 2018, 4,000 Google employees killed a Pentagon contract. In 2026, Google signed a bigger one. Now the AI researchers are unionising
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In 2018, four thousand Google employees signed a petition against Project Maven, a Pentagon contract that used the company’s AI to analyse drone surveillance footage. Google did not renew the contract. It published a set of AI principles pledging not to develop weapons or surveillance technology that violates international norms. It built an AI ethics […]
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