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Massive bombshell. Google promised its engineers they would never develop technologies for weapons or human rights violations. When workers discovered their tech was powering an active genocide, executives immediately fired 50 protesters. Big tech is weaponized by the Pentagon.

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Google just completely BETRAYED its principles and people. In 2018, 4,000 Google employees signed a letter demanding the company to stop helping the Pentagon use AI for drone strikes. Google listened. They dropped the contract and published a pledge promising they would NEVER use AI for weapons or surveillance. But Google just signed a $200 million deal to put its most powerful AI on the Pentagon's classified networks for "any lawful purpose." And the story behind how they got from Point A to Point B is one of the most calculated corporate betrayals in Silicon Valley history. Here's what happened: The 2018 protest was over Project Maven, a Pentagon program that used Google's AI to identify targets in drone footage. Employees said "Google should not be in the business of war." A dozen engineers quit. Thousands more signed petitions. Google folded and let the contract expire. Then they published their famous AI Principles: 1. No weapons 2. No surveillance 3. No technologies that cause harm Sundar Pichai personally announced them. That pledge lasted exactly as long as the contracts didn't matter. Because here's what Google did quietly over the next 7 years while everyone thought they were the "ethical" AI company: December 2022: Won a share of the Pentagon's $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud contract alongside Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle. 2024: Deployed Gemini to 3 million Pentagon personnel. February 2025: Quietly DELETED the weapons and surveillance language from their AI Principles. No announcement or press conference. April 2026: Signed the classified deal with the Pentagon for "any lawful government purpose." They didn't have a change of heart. They had a change of revenue. And the timing of this deal is where it gets really dark: 600 Google employees, including 20+ directors and VPs from DeepMind, sent a letter to Pichai on Monday begging him not to sign. The letter said the only way to guarantee Google's AI wouldn't be used for lethal autonomous weapons or mass surveillance was to reject classified workloads entirely, because once the technology enters air-gapped military networks, nobody at Google can see what happens to it. But Google literally signed the deal WHILE THE EMPLOYEES SLEPT. One Google AI researcher told Business Insider: "When I went to bed yesterday, I was hopeful that the employee letter would have an effect. This morning I woke up to the worst-case version of the contract being signed." The contract says Google has NO right to control or veto how the government uses its AI. The Pentagon can request Google to adjust its AI safety settings. And the deal covers classified networks where Google employees cannot monitor what's being done with their own technology. They handed over the keys and gave up the right to ask what the car is being used for. Meanwhile Anthropic got BLACKLISTED as a "supply chain risk" for asking for two restrictions: No mass surveillance of Americans and no fully autonomous weapons without a human pressing the button. The Pentagon treated an American company like a foreign adversary for requesting the exact same principles Google publicly pledged in 2018 and then quietly deleted. The math sums up the whole story: Project Maven in 2018 was worth a few million dollars. Google walked away and got applauded for having principles. The classified AI market in 2026 is worth tens of billions. Google deleted the principles and signed the deal at midnight. Palantir took over Project Maven after Google dropped it. That investment grew to $13 billion. Google watched a competitor make billions off the contract they abandoned for ethics and decided that would never happen again. In 2018, principles beat profits. In 2026, profits buried the principles. Google sold their soul for money.

Ricardo

27,550 views • 3 months ago

The penny is fast dropping that a Burnham gov won’t just be Starmer with better comms. Things are moving firmly leftwards. Yesterday, Andy had a big meeting with the unions just as his camp were sending a flurry of anti-tech briefings to the FT. It has immediately spooked the UK’s tech industry - one of the economy’s rare bright spots right now. Take this one on autonomous vehicles, where Team Burnham criticises the gov’s ‘headlong pursuit of driverless cars.’ We should be so proud that the UK has a dog in the fight when it comes to this field of tech, with British software company, Wayve, competing against the likes of Tesla, Waymo and Baidu. Wayve is developing a different proposition to its competitors, which map everything in a way that is time-intensive and costly. By safely testing its tech on London’s complex road network, a brilliant product is being developed and refined in the UK that could be exported or have application in other settings. Instead, all the focus is on the threat of robotaxis to jobs even though there remain substantial real-world hurdles to rolling them out at scale, not least their cost versus a driver. Do we want the UK to develop world-leading tech or just receive what everyone else is willing to give us? It looks like a Burnham gov may want to crush our chances, just as it wants to remove Palantir from the delivery of important gov projects even if its tech can deliver better NHS services or policing. I am on record as being sceptical of Labour’s unquestioning embrace of US big tech in its first two years because I worried that they were too dazzled to carry out due diligence on promised investments, draw up decent contracts which avoided vendor lock-in or to procure from a wider range of more innovative, often domestic, companies. But that’s not the critique the Left is making of this current gov’s tech policy thus far. Tech companies of all kinds are their new bogeymen, to be driven out the moment a union’s interests are threatened. After all, if Labour was truly concerned about tech’s impact on jobs, it would not have made it so much more eyewateringly expensive and difficult to employ people.

Julia Lopez MP

231,029 views • 1 month ago