Google to drop Pentagon AI contract after employee objections to the ‘business of war’

Washington Post ^ | June 1 at 6:10 PM | Drew Harwell

[Okeydoker]

Google is owned and run almost entirely by foreign born dirtbags, mostly Indians. None are americans bybirth or white. So what do you expect?

[cgbg]

If you believe that, we are dummer than a box o rocks. Google just creates a different company with a distracting name, and announces Google has quit the business with righteousness. Google fires all the people involved and the newly created company hires them all up the next day with a raise.

You nailed it. Of course, whatever Google does in this area is a national security secret, so good luck finding out about it.

If their employees believe what Google says--well, you can't fix stupid.

[daltec]

I had a similar experience at an interview once. The interviewer asked if I would have any "issues" working on contracts that supported the military. I remember blinking a few times in honest confusion -- why on earth was I being asked that? Was it one of those trick interview questions?

I asked the interviewer what she meant, and she said that some people have moral concerns about working on contracts that support the military. And I just had to laugh. No, I can assure you, I would not have any issues hahaha.

Got the job!

[fuzzylogic]

Who’d have thought right?

I hope you had great success!!! :)

[GingisK]

Google should still be sued for breach of contract.

[morphing libertarian]

Didn’t they just contract with the chinese for AI?

[morphing libertarian]

http://fortune.com/2017/12/13/google-china-artificial-intelligence/

[Ozark Tom]

Can’t let their body of work, or the people involved fall in with the wrong crowd though can we? Is it classified? Then they can’t exactly work in that niche field of endeavor without a proper security clearance and the supervision that entails.

Patents can and have been classified. Can also put a twist in peoples ability to work in a field for decades if push-comes-to-shove.