About a dozen Google employees are resigning in protest over the tech giant's involvement in Project Maven, a controversial military program that uses artificial intelligence, Gizmodo reports. Project Maven, which harnesses AI to improve drone targeting, has been a source of concern for a number of Google employees. Last month, over 3,100 Google workers signed a letter to the company's CEO Sundar Pichai asking him to pull the tech giant out of the project. Announced last year, Project Maven is designed to swiftly pull important data from vast quantities of imagery. The tech news website cites an internal Google document containing written accounts from many of the employees that details their decisions to leave.

More than 3,000 Google employees have penned an open letter calling upon the internet giant's CEO to end its controversial'Project Maven' deal. Calling the deal'business of war', they said Google boss Sundar Pichai should'cancel this project immediately'. It was revealed last month that Google is allowing the Pentagon to use some of its artificial intelligence technologies to analyze drone footage. Google employees were reportedly outraged by the project from the beginning, but took their opposition a step further by publishing the open letter. Google employees penned a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to step away from'Project Maven,' where the Pentagon using TensorFlow software to identify objects in drone footage Project Maven involves using Google's artificial intelligence software to analyze aerial surveillance video to look for patterns that can help military intelligence analysts. Work on the project began last April.