Google DeepMind workers are unionizing over AI military contracts

Staffers astatine Google DeepMind's office person voted to unionize successful an effort to forestall the AI firm's exertion from being utilized by Israel and the US military. In a missive to Google absorption connected Tuesday, employees requested that the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite the Union beryllium recognized arsenic associated representatives, with 98 percent of CWU members astatine DeepMind voting successful enactment of the move.

"We don't privation our AI models complicit successful violations of planetary law, but they already are aiding Israel's genocide of Palestinians," an unnamed DeepMind worker said successful a connection shared by the CWU. "Even if our enactment is lone utilized for advertisement …

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