Google Reportedly Worked Directly With Israel’s Military On AI Tools – The Verge
Google Reportedly Worked Directly With Israel’s Military On AI Tools
The company raced to beat Amazon to sell AI tools to the Israel Defense Forces.
By Gaby Del Valle , a policy reporter. Her past work has focused on immigration politics, border surveillance technologies, and the rise of the New Right.
Google worked with the Israeli military in the immediate aftermath of its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, racing to beat out Amazon to provide AI services, according to company documents obtained by the Washington Post .
In the weeks after Hamas’s October 7th attack on Israel, employees at Google’s cloud division worked directly with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) – even as the company told both the public and its own employees that Google only worked with civilian government ministries, the documents reportedly show.
Weeks after the war began, an employee with Google’s cloud division escalated the IDF’s military’s requests for access to Google’s AI technology, according to the Post . In another document, an employee warned that Google needed to quickly respond to the military’s requests, or else Israel would turn to Amazon for its cloud computing needs. In a November 2023 document, an employee thanks a coworker for handling the IDF’s request. Months later, employees requested additional access to AI tools for the IDF.
Amid this, Google was punishing employees for protesting Project Nimbus, Israel’s $1.2 billion contract for Google and Amazon’s cloud computing services. Google fired 28 employees who staged sit-in protests at the company’s offices in New York and California, some of whom were also arrested during the demonstrations.
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[Looking Back on It.. One didn’t have to be an Egyptian intelligence analyst, or have access to the high tech Israeli surveillance apparatus or be station on the Gaza Border, to see the warning signs Hamas was outright telling the world they were ready for “all-out war” just weeks prior to the Oct. 7th attack..which Israel was developing AI in anticipation for.
Weird how Israel was preparing for “All out war” while threatening to court martial intelligence officers warning of the impending Oct 7th attack (oh which Israel had blue prints of a year prior)
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