Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military - BBC

Several technology workers have resigned from Google DeepMind, or are in the process of leaving, over concerns about Google's military contracts, the BBC reported. The BBC published the account under a headline describing Google staff resigning in a backlash over the company's AI contracts with the military. The BBC said it had spoken to a number of tech workers who have either recently resigned from Google DeepMind or are in the process of leaving. Research engineer Sofia Liguori said she decided to resign over Google's increasing work with the US and Israeli militaries.

Liguori is the worker named in the BBC's account, where she is identified as a research engineer. The reason she gave for her decision was Google's increasing work with the US and Israeli militaries. The BBC frames the wider set of departures as a reaction to Google's military contracts, and quotes Liguori directly on her reason for leaving.

The BBC's account is built on conversations with several of the workers involved. Some of them have already left Google DeepMind; others are in the process of leaving. The contracts at the centre of the report are Google's military contracts, and the two militaries named are those of the US and Israel. Liguori described Google's work with those militaries as increasing, and the BBC presents the resignations as a backlash against that work. The BBC describes the departing workers as tech workers and places the resignations specifically at Google DeepMind, the company's AI research division.