Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract

It’s been nearly three months since many Google employees—and the public—learned about the company’s decision to provide artificial intelligence to a controversial military pilot program known as Project Maven, which aims to speed up analysis of drone footage by automatically classifying images of objects and people. Now, about a dozen Google employees are resigning in protest over the company’s continued involvement in Maven.

— Read on gizmodo.com/google-employees-resign-in-protest-against-pentagon-con-1825729300

Wait, did this article just report that @IBM refuses to work on US Defense Department contracts? Is this true?

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