Google UK in Internal Turmoil as Anti-Israel DeepMind Staff Unionise

Bad times over at big tech giant Google, whose staff at AI division DeepMind are in the process of unionising with the antediluvian dinosaurs at the Communication Workers Union. Nothing to do with employment rights, rather due to DeepMind’s contracts with Israel…

Top engineers at DeepMind – many of whom earn some of the biggest salaries in UK tech – are collectivising over the ‘ethics’ at Google, according to a CWU figure, with one engineer accusing his employer of ‘sacrificing morals for greed’.[…] Read the rest