Nearly 200 Google DeepMind staff members are calling for the company to cut off military access to its technology, including through programs like Project Nimbus.
In May 2024, around 200 employees at Google DeepMind signed a letter urging the company to end its contracts with military organizations, expressing concerns that its AI technology was being used for warfare, Time magazine reported. The letter states that employee concerns aren’t “about the geopolitics of any particular conflict,” but it does link out to Time’s reporting on Google’s defense contract with the Israeli military, known as Project Nimbus.
--- Do you work at Google? I’d love to chat. You can reach me securely on Signal @kylie.01 or via email at [email protected]. --- The use of AI in warfare has spread rapidly, pushing some technologists who build related systems to speak out. But Google also made a specific commitment: when it acquired DeepMind in 2014, the lab’s leaders required that their AI technology would never be used for military or surveillance purposes.
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