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If Google Drops Project Maven, ‘Pentagon Will Try to Strike Back At Them'

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https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201804071063302573-google-employees-project-maven/

More than 3,000 Google employees sent a letter to Sundar Pichai, the company's chief executive, asking the internet giant to stop working on a project for the US military, it was revealed Wednesday.

The project the 3,100 employees rallied against is known as Project Maven and is intended to help improve the precision of military drone strikes.

"We believe that Google should not be in the business of war," the letter states.
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Google in the employ of the Pentagon to develop some nifty drone targeting technology? I wonder how this will end.
 
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201804071063302573-google-employees-project-maven/

More than 3,000 Google employees sent a letter to Sundar Pichai, the company's chief executive, asking the internet giant to stop working on a project for the US military, it was revealed Wednesday.

The project the 3,100 employees rallied against is known as Project Maven and is intended to help improve the precision of military drone strikes.

"We believe that Google should not be in the business of war," the letter states.
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Google in the employ of the Pentagon to develop some nifty drone targeting technology? I wonder how this will end.

Speaking of Google... You may want to use it to do a little research on Sputnik news before you contemplate believing anything they publish. Just a thought.
 
Speaking of Google... You may want to use it to do a little research on Sputnik news before you contemplate believing anything they publish. Just a thought.

I take it with a grain of salt. But they would tend to put out the stuff that DHS wouldn't want you to see anyway.

You might like this more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech...k-ended-defense-dept-drone-project/488670002/

Google workers want to end work on Defense Department drone project, cite 'Don't Be Evil' motto

More than 3,000 Google employees have signed a letter asking management to end the company's involvement in Project Maven, a Defense Department drone surveillance project.

The employees, in a letter addressed to company CEO Sundar Pichai, say Google's assistance in developing the artificial intelligence-powered system to detect vehicles and other objects in video captured by military drones betrays the company's motto of "Don't Be Evil."
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So Sputnik got it right.
 
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I take it with a grain of salt. But they would tend to put out the stuff that DHS wouldn't want you to see anyway.

You might like this more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech...k-ended-defense-dept-drone-project/488670002/

Google workers want to end work on Defense Department drone project, cite 'Don't Be Evil' motto

More than 3,000 Google employees have signed a letter asking management to end the company's involvement in Project Maven, a Defense Department drone surveillance project.

The employees, in a letter addressed to company CEO Sundar Pichai, say Google's assistance in developing the artificial intelligence-powered system to detect vehicles and other objects in video captured by military drones betrays the company's motto of "Don't Be Evil."
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So Sputnik got it right.

A broken clock is right twice a day, for one second each time. I wouldn't use that as a reason to rely upon either one. Especially if you know both are broken.
 
A broken clock is right twice a day, for one second each time. I wouldn't use that as a reason to rely upon either one. Especially if you know both are broken.

I posted 2 stories tonight in this forum & in both cases Sputnik got in 100% correct.
 
3000 bright google employees believe this project violates their employer's 'don't do evil' principle

is there a legitimate counter argument that says google's assistance to pinpoint drone strikes helps mitigate loss of life and limb of innocents who might otherwise become collateral damage?
 
3000 bright google employees believe this project violates their employer's 'don't do evil' principle

is there a legitimate counter argument that says google's assistance to pinpoint drone strikes helps mitigate loss of life and limb of innocents who might otherwise become collateral damage?

Governments, regimes, and targets change. The weapons developed don't.
 
Update: It looks like the daffodils who equate the Department of Defense with evil won:

Google will not seek another contract for its controversial work providing artificial intelligence to the U.S. Department of Defense for analyzing drone footage after its current contract expires.

Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene announced the decision at a meeting with employees Friday morning, three sources told Gizmodo. The current contract expires in 2019 and there will not be a follow-up contract, Greene said. The meeting, dubbed Weather Report, is a weekly update on Google Cloud’s business.

Google would not choose to pursue Maven today because the backlash has been terrible for the company, Greene said, adding that the decision was made at a time when Google was more aggressively pursuing military work. The company plans to unveil new ethical principles about its use of AI next week. A Google spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions about Greene’s comments.

https://gizmodo.com/google-plans-not-to-renew-its-contract-for-project-mave-1826488620

It's one thing to be a pacifist and not want to get involved in military contracts for advanced technology. If you don't like it, then do what some employees did: quit. But it's another thing to place every other citizen's security at risk just because you're a *****. People died for your sorry ass. Too bad we can't export you to Nepal.
 
Update: It looks like the daffodils who equate the Department of Defense with evil won:



It's one thing to be a pacifist and not want to get involved in military contracts for advanced technology. If you don't like it, then do what some employees did: quit. But it's another thing to place every other citizen's security at risk just because you're a *****. People died for your sorry ass. Too bad we can't export you to Nepal.

why the sense of jingoistic entitlement, that google should ignore its ethical dilemma and instead pursue military contracts its management and employees believe to be inconsistent with google's mission and brand, just to be able to be found by your ilk to be sufficiently patriotic
 
why the sense of jingoistic entitlement, that google should ignore its ethical dilemma and instead pursue military contracts its management and employees believe to be inconsistent with google's mission and brand, just to be able to be found by your ilk to be sufficiently patriotic

I guess if your philosophy is "do no evil" and you equate defending the country with evil, then there is no dilemma. But here's a better statement of the "jingoistic entitlement" take on this problem:

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.”

John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy

I don't think most citizens of this country equate our armed forces with evil, but the thousands of Google employees who signed that "Google should not be in the business of war" letter are probably the same people who, being so out of touch with the mainstream, were crying in their hot buttered toddies on Election Night 2016.
 
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