""We are Google employees who are deeply concerned about ongoing negotiations between Google and the US Department of Defense. As people working on AI, we know that these systems can centralize power and that they do make mistakes.""
""Currently, the only way to guarantee that Google does not become associated with such harms is to reject any classified workloads. Otherwise, such uses may occur without our knowledge or the power to stop them.""
More than 580 Google employees, including senior leaders, signed a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai urging him to refuse classified military AI work for the Pentagon. The letter expresses concerns about the inability to monitor AI usage on air-gapped networks, emphasizing that trust is insufficient as a safeguard against potential misuse. The signatories argue that rejecting classified workloads is the only way to prevent Google from being associated with harmful applications of AI. This follows previous employee protests against military projects like Project Maven in 2018.
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