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Google DeepMind staff call for end to military contracts
As the use of AI in warfare has spread rapidly, nearly 200 staffers at Google DeepMind have signed a letter urging the company to drop its military contracts.
In May 2024, around 200 employees at Google DeepMind (representing roughly 5 percent of the division) 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. 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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