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Title: Google employees protest work for US military drones
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URL Source: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/ ... yees-drone-strikes-US-military
Published: Apr 5, 2018
Author: staff
Post Date: 2018-04-05 23:45:49 by Tatarewicz
Keywords: None
Views: 72
Comments: 3

PressTV...

Thousands of Google employees, including dozens of senior engineers, have signed a letter protesting the company’s involvement in a US military drone project, which has stirred concern among experts who think such cooperation is not ethical.

The Pentagon program is testing the internet giant's artificial intelligence (AI) system to analyze vast amounts of footage captured by the US military’s unmanned surveillance planes around the world and to establish targets for drone strikes.

More 3,100 staff are thought to have signed a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, demanding that the company pulls out of pilot experiment, called Project Maven.

The program intends to help the Pentagon conduct more precise attacks by drones against targets in other countries, including Syria and Iraq.

“We believe that Google should not be in the business of war,” says the letter. It asks that Google announce a policy that it will not “ever build warfare technology.”

This plan will irreparably damage Google’s brand and its ability to compete for talent,” the letter says. “Amid growing fears of biased and weaponized AI, Google is already struggling to keep the public’s trust.” PressTV-Google providing technology for US military drones The US military has been using Google’s artificial intelligence products to better analyze its targets, causing ethical debate among the company’s employees.

Project Maven is one of the many US drone projects aimed at automatically and quickly singling out points of interest so that analysts can work more efficiently in pinpointing new targets.

Google has described its work on Project Maven as “non-offensive” in nature, though the Pentagon’s video analysis is routinely used in counterterrorism operations.

But that explanation has not convinced those Google employees who think their work is being used for attacks that have on many occasions led to civilian deaths.

Through the formation of the Defense Innovation Board in 2016, Silicon Valley has advised American military officials to adopt breakthrough technology developed by technology pioneers such as Microsoft and Amazon.

Google is widely expected to compete with other technology giants for a multiyear, multibillion-dollar contract to provide cloud services to the US Defense Department.

“The argument that other firms, like Microsoft and Amazon, are also participating doesn’t make this any less risky for Google,” the letter says. “Google’s unique history, its motto Don’t Be Evil, and its direct reach into the lives of billions of users set it apart.”

There has been a sharp rise in the number of US drone strikes since US President Donald Trump took office, according to a report published in December by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

A group of human rights organizations have expressed concern that Trump’s reported new drone policy increases the risk of civilian casualties.

The groups, which include Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union, said the reported policy changes lack transparency in the decision-making process.

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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

I would certainly side with the Google employees on this one.

Pinguinite  posted on  2018-04-06   0:02:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Pinguinite (#1)

Well yes, if hostilities beak out Google would be as much a military target as any other.

Tatarewicz  posted on  2018-04-06   0:40:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

HAH! Google has made itself a virtual Minitrue and Miniluv based on berserk political correctness -- and now jumps right into bed with the war machine!!! Does its army of SJW and snowflake employees not make the connection between that BS and Washington's totally insane policies?

Little Googlators support equality, and Robert Whitaker ingeniously called these wars "busing by bomber" from Kosovo on. We're destroying the Ayrab world for Izrul, Google staffers should be yelling "bombs away!"

What are they, a bunch of "anti-Semites"?

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NeoconsNailed  posted on  2018-04-06   4:57:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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