Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract (gizmodo.com)

Kate Conger, reporting for Gizmodo: It's been nearly three months since many Google employees -- and the public -- learned about the company's decision to provide artificial intelligence to a controversial military pilot program known as Project Maven, which aims to speed up analysis of drone footage by automatically classifying images of objects and people. Now, about a dozen Google employees are resigning in protest over the company's continued involvement in Maven.

The resigning employees' frustrations range from particular ethical concerns over the use of artificial intelligence in drone warfare to broader worries about Google's political decisions -- and the erosion of user trust that could result from these actions. Many of them have written accounts of their decisions to leave the company, and their stories have been gathered and shared in an internal document, the contents of which multiple sources have described to Gizmodo.

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Re:Of course

[blind biker]

supporting and approving apartheid

There is no apartheid in Israel. Arabs have all the rights that Jews have - including education, in which they excel - there is a higher percentage of Arabs in Israeli universities, than there are Arabs in Israel. Arabs have the right to vote just like any other Israeli citizen. The state of israel goes of of their way to accommodate their sensibilities by making army duty non-compulsory for Arabs (they are the only ones exempt from draft).

I am not saying this to hurt your feelings, but saying there is "apartheid" in Israel is not true.