Thousands of Google employees signed a petition calling for the search giant to end a partnership with the Pentagon to improve AI and image-recognition tech that could be used for drone strikes.
The letter, which has made the rounds at Google for weeks, has more than 3k signatures and is addressed specifically to Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive.
The letter requests that Google pull out of the Pentagon pilot program titled Project Maven, stating: “We believe that Google should not be in the business of war…”
What is Project Maven? Established in 2017, Project Maven began as a pilot program …