Dave Farber
2018-10-18 22:03:15 UTC
Date: October 19, 2018 at 12:30:21 AM GMT+9
Subject: Antiwar Movement Spreads Among Tech Workers
Dave, FYI, my latest column for Scientific American. John Horgan
Antiwar Movement Spreads Among Tech Workers
Engineering students join Google and Microsoft workers in protesting tech-industry enablement of U.S. militarism.
Resistance to U.S. militarism is growing in an unlikely place, the tech industry. The New York Times reported last week that at âGoogle, Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce, as well as at tech start-ups, engineers and technologists are increasingly asking whether the products they are working on are being used for surveillance in places like China or for military projects in the United States or elsewhere.â
This trend made news last spring when Google employees protested its involvement in a military program called Maven, which harnesses artificial intelligence for identifying targets...
A more recent focus of protest is a $10 billion program called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud, or JEDI, which calls for collecting military data in a cloud system. JEDI is thought to play a key role in the Pentagonâs ambitions to incorporate artificial intelligence into its operations.
Last week Bloomberg reported that Google decided not to pursue the JEDI contract, for two reasons. First, Google does not have the required classification clearances, a spokesperson explained, and second, the company âcouldnât be assured that [JEDI] would align with our AI Principles"...
Continue at https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/antiwar-movement-spreads-among-tech-workers/
-------------------------------------------Subject: Antiwar Movement Spreads Among Tech Workers
Dave, FYI, my latest column for Scientific American. John Horgan
Antiwar Movement Spreads Among Tech Workers
Engineering students join Google and Microsoft workers in protesting tech-industry enablement of U.S. militarism.
Resistance to U.S. militarism is growing in an unlikely place, the tech industry. The New York Times reported last week that at âGoogle, Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce, as well as at tech start-ups, engineers and technologists are increasingly asking whether the products they are working on are being used for surveillance in places like China or for military projects in the United States or elsewhere.â
This trend made news last spring when Google employees protested its involvement in a military program called Maven, which harnesses artificial intelligence for identifying targets...
A more recent focus of protest is a $10 billion program called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud, or JEDI, which calls for collecting military data in a cloud system. JEDI is thought to play a key role in the Pentagonâs ambitions to incorporate artificial intelligence into its operations.
Last week Bloomberg reported that Google decided not to pursue the JEDI contract, for two reasons. First, Google does not have the required classification clearances, a spokesperson explained, and second, the company âcouldnât be assured that [JEDI] would align with our AI Principles"...
Continue at https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/antiwar-movement-spreads-among-tech-workers/
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