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Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals

Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals

Joel Khalili · Wired

“A lot of people here bought into the Google DeepMind tagline ‘to build AI responsibly to benefit humanity,’” the DeepMind employee told WIRED. “The direction of travel is to further militarization of the AI models we’re building here.”

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“These conversations are happening . . . The workers at other frontier labs have seen what Google DeepMind workers have done. They’ve come to us asking for help as well.”

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