More than a thousand Google employees have signed a letter protesting the company’s secretive plan to build a search engine that would comply with Chinese censorship.
The letter calls on executives to review ethics and transparency at the company.
The letter’s contents were confirmed by a Google employee who helped organize it but who requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the debate.
WATCH BELOW: Google tracks your movements even when you tell it not to
- AI stocks drop as tech companies call to slow down development for safety
- King Charles to discuss AI with company executives as threat fears mount
- How Google, Meta are implementing its ‘age assurance’ tech in Canada
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to give safety measures time to catch up
The letter says employees lack the information required “to make ethically informed decisions about our work” and complains that most employees only found out about the project — nicknamed Dragonfly — through media reports.
The letter is similar to one thousands of employees had signed in protest of Project Maven, a U.S. military contract that Google decided in June not to renew.
Comments
Want to discuss? Please read our Commenting Policy first.