Skip to content
Social Robot Futures
  • Home
  • About
    • Projects
    • People
    • Publications/Talks
    • Research
      • Interviews 2015
      • Photos 2015
        • Ishiguro Lab
        • Robot Hotel (Japan)
        • CEATEC Robotics Expo
        • Robot Hall of Fame
      • Archival Research
  • Blog
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Automatons Lectures 2018
    • Cyborg Futures 2017
  • Resources
    • Fiction
    • Film
    • Non-Fiction
    • Ecological Impacts
    • Links
  • Media
    • In the News
    • Contact Us
News

Academics Support Google Workers Against Company’s Military Project

  • May 15, 2018Sep 16, 2021

On March 6th news broke that Google was participating in a pilot project with the US military, supplying artificial intelligence capabilities to automate the analysis of drone surveillance footage (see Gizmodo and New York Times). Since then, Google employees have signed a petition opposing their company’s involvement, twelve employees are “resigning in protest,” and “tech workers” in the broader industry have circulated their own petition.

Read more “Academics Support Google Workers Against Company’s Military Project” →

FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK

AI and Robotics Alan Turing algorithms Automatons Books Breazeal Cyborg Futures David Levy Despina Kakoudaki Discussion Donna Haraway Drones Duncan MacIntosh Ethics Events Ex Machina Fiction Fuyuki Kurasawa gender Google Ian Kerr Illah Nourbakhsh Jibo John Long Kathleen Richardson Killer Robots Kurzweil Louis Chude-Sokei Lucy Suchman Noel Sharkey Patrick Crogan Progress R.U.R. Religion Robots Science Fiction Singularity Singularity University Sophia Stan Matwin Star Wars Teresa Heffernan Video Vikram Chandra Wall-E

Copyright 2023 Social Robot Futures