{"id":351605,"date":"2018-03-10T16:34:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T15:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/googles-alliance-with-the-military-the-ruling-class-responds-to-social-unrest-in-america\/"},"modified":"2018-03-10T16:34:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T15:34:03","slug":"googles-alliance-with-the-military-the-ruling-class-responds-to-social-unrest-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/googles-alliance-with-the-military-the-ruling-class-responds-to-social-unrest-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s alliance with the military: The ruling class responds to social unrest in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Google\u2019s alliance with the military: The ruling class responds to social unrest in America<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    10 March 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Last week, Google confirmed that it has provided artificial intelligence software to assist the United States military and intelligence apparatus in analyzing data as part of its drone war and assassination program in the Middle East and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The website Gizmodo, which first broke the story, reported that the military program using Google is called Project Maven. A military report announcing the project last year said it \u201cfocuses on computer vision\u2014an aspect of machine learning and deep learning\u2014that autonomously extracts objects of interest from moving or still imagery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marine Corps Col. Drew Cukor, identified as the \u201cchief of the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Function Team in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Operations Directorate-Warfare Support,\u201d said at the time that the US is \u201cin an AI arms race,\u201d and noted that \u201cEric Schmidt [executive chairman of Google\u2019s parent company, Alphabet] is calling Google an AI company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The revelations directly implicate Google in the criminal activities of the US government all over the world. They also further expose the intimate relationship between the giant internet and telecommunications companies and the repressive apparatus of the state.<\/p>\n<p>A revolving door has been established between the workforces of the technology monopolies and military and intelligence agencies. At a hearing in January, a spokesman for Facebook bragged that, in doubling its army of censors, which will hit 20,000 at the end of this year, the company is prioritizing hiring \u201cformer intelligence and law-enforcement officials\u201d who had previously \u201cworked in the area of counterterrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt himself has become an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/03\/10\/pers-m10.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Google\u2019s alliance with the military: The ruling class responds to social unrest in America 10 March 2018 Last week, Google confirmed that it has provided artificial intelligence software to assist the United States military and intelligence apparatus in analyzing data as part of its drone war and assassination program in the Middle East and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}