"Alphabet Inc.’s Google has decided not to compete for the Pentagon’s cloud-computing contract valued at as much as $10 billion, saying the project may conflict with its corporate values." Respect to workers who forced Google to state ethical principles.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-08/google-drops-out-of-pentagon-s-10-billion-cloud-competition …
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In their statement, Google points to its AI principles as the reason for this decision (principles that are themselves a response to internal dissent). The truth is that the project was stopped by the thousands of workers who demanded a say in what they build.
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Workers who also refused to contribute their talents to efforts they believed to be unethical, like Maven and JEDI. This shows that we have significant power, and are increasingly willing to use it.
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How's that Dragonfly project going for those workers?
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