Googlers’ ethical refusal to build airgap systems curtailed Google’s ability to bid on sensitive military contracts

thebaconsandwichofregret:

cheskamouse:

between-stars-and-waves:

mostlysignssomeportents:

A group of elite Google Cloud engineers simply refused to put any work
into an airgap system designed to let the company bid on sensitive
military contracts, which undermined the company’s ability to seek
military work.

This happened “earlier this year” according to a Bloomberg report, and was the inspiration for the  googlers’ successful uprising over sale of AI tools to the Pentagon’s drone program.

The engineers who participated in the boycott are known internally as
the “Group of Nine” and were lionized by their colleagues for their
ethical refusal to work on a project that would see the company’s
engineering might turned to military applications.

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/23/gone-gone-pentagon.html

Good

Bless them.

this is why companies are afraid of workers banding together. This was started by NINE people.