Antiwar Movement Spreads Among Tech Workers

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: John Horgan <jhorgan () stevens edu>
> Date: October 19, 2018 at 12:30:21 AM GMT+9
> To: Dave Farber <farber () gmail com>
> Subject: Antiwar Movement Spreads Among Tech Workers
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> Dave, FYI, my latest column for Scientific American. John Horgan
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> Antiwar Movement Spreads Among Tech Workers
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> Engineering students join Google and Microsoft workers in protesting tech-industry enablement of U.S. militarism.
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> Resistance to U.S. militarism is growing in an unlikely place, the tech industry. The New York Times reported last 
> week that at “Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce, as well as at tech start-ups, engineers and technologists are 
> increasingly asking whether the products they are working on are being used for surveillance in places like China or 
> for military projects in the United States or elsewhere.”
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> This trend made news last spring when Google employees protested its involvement in a military program called Maven, 
> which harnesses artificial intelligence for identifying targets...
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> A more recent focus of protest is a $10 billion program called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud, or 
> JEDI, which calls for collecting military data in a cloud system. JEDI is thought to play a key role in the 
> Pentagon’s ambitions to incorporate artificial intelligence into its operations.
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> Last week Bloomberg reported that Google decided not to pursue the JEDI contract, for two reasons. First, Google does 
> not have the required classification clearances, a spokesperson explained, and second, the company “couldn’t be 
> assured that [JEDI] would align with our AI Principles"...
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> Continue at https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/antiwar-movement-spreads-among-tech-workers/



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