Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military

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6 hours agoChristopher GilesBBC Eye investigationsReutersDeepMind is Google's AI companyGoogle is facing a backlash from some staff members over the company's deployment of its AI technology for military use. The BBC has spoken to several tech workers who have either recently resigned from Google's AI company, Google DeepMind, or are in the process of leaving, over concerns with the tech firm's military contracts. Sofia Liguori, a London-based research engineer, is one of them. "I don't agree with this direction and this has led me to lose faith in my company being true to its stated ethical values," she said.

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