Staff at Google, Amazon and Microsoft are using walkouts, work slowdowns and refusals to build to hold the tech giants to their proclaimed ethics
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MORE than 700 Google workers have signed an open letter demanding their employer drops Dragonfly, what they call an “effort to create a censored search engine for the Chinese market that enables state surveillance”.
Such workers make companies stick to their publicised ethics and push for more robust ethical standards. Their moves are to be admired, as they help us all.
Other examples include some 4000 Google workers who raised the alarm last year over Project Maven, which offered access to a powerful AI to process drone surveillance and target people for killing. …