Google Employees Now Quitting As Company Joins Pentagon, Becomes Part of the War Machine

Last month, The Free Thought Project reported that thousands of Google employees were speaking out about the company's close relationship with the Pentagon, and their involvement in the business of war. Initially, 3,100 Google employees signed a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, demanding that the company cancel an ongoing contract with the Pentagon that supported a drone program called "Project Maven." As expected, Google has not backed down, and at least a dozen of the employees who signed the letter are now resigning from the company in protest. Project Maven is an AI system that is being developed to scan images in drone footage and identify targets. It was launched in April 2017, and according to a Pentagon memo, the objective is to "augment or automate Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (PED) for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)" in order to "reduce the human factors burden of [full motion video] analysis, increase actionable intelligence, and enhance military decision-making."