Google Employees Quit Over Controversial Pentagon Work

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Via NY Post:

There’s something eating at Google employees.

Roughly one dozen employees of the search giant have resigned in the wake of reports that the Mountain View, Calif., company is providing artificial intelligence to the Pentagon, according to a report on Monday.

The employees resigned because of ethical concerns over the company’s work with the Defense Department that includes helping the military speed up analysis of drone footage by automatically classifying images of objects and people, Gizmodo reported.

News of the Google-Pentagon agreement, which involves the controversial Project Maven, surfaced roughly three months ago.

Many of the employees who quit have written accounts of their decisions to leave the company — and their stories have been gathered and shared in an internal document, the contents of which multiple sources have described to Gizmodo, which first reported on the Google exits.

Google executives have become less transparent with their workforce about controversial business decisions and seem less interested in listening to workers’ objections than they once did, according to several of the exiting workers who discussed their decision to leave with Gizmodo.

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