[Peace-discuss] Google staff rebel as company embraces military links
J.B. Nicholson
jbn at forestfield.org
Sat May 19 06:28:50 UTC 2018
Ron Szoke quoted Bloomberg's article
athttps://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/14/google-staff-rebel-as-company-embraces-military-links/>
Google staff rebel as company embraces military links> [...]
> The petition cites Google’s history of avoiding military work and its
> famous “do no evil” slogan. One of Alphabet’s AI research labs has even
> distanced itself from the project. Employees against the deal see it as
> an unacceptable link with a U.S. administration many oppose and an
> unnerving first step toward autonomous killing machines. About a dozen
> staff are resigning in protest over the company’s continued involvement
> in Maven, Gizmodo reported on Monday.
https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from-1826153393
says Google has recently removed its old motto "Don't be evil" from its
code of conduct distributed to its employees.
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