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For months, a debate has raged inside Google, following the company’s decision to help the U.S. Department of Defense analyze video footage gathered by military drones. Several thousand Google employees signed an internal petition to CEO Sundar Pichai opposing the project, and now, around a dozen have quit, Gizmodo reports.

Many of the employees who quit wrote memos to their colleagues describing their motivations, which range from specific ethical concerns about helping the military use artificial intelligence, to more general concerns about Google losing the public’s trust.
“We believe that tech companies should not be in the business of war, and that we as tech workers must adopt binding ethical standards for the use of AI that will let us build the world we believe in,” the Tech Workers Coalition petition reads.

The idealist SOBs don't understand the peril if we lose the technological advantage.