| Google DeepMind Engineer Resigns in Protest of Pentagon Contract Sofia Liguori, a research engineer working at DeepMind, resigned in protest this week from Google's pioneering artificial intelligence laboratory. Unlike a wave of other AI researchers who have quit over fears AI might someday turn against humanity, Liguori stepped down over concern about her employer's current practices. Disenchanted and disturbed by Google's military contracts with the U.S. and Israel, Liguori says she could no longer stand working at a company that was going to help kill people or help build technology that 'automatically makes it easier to escalate the brutality of war.' |
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