{"id":355396,"date":"2018-04-05T19:28:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-google-employees-protest-work-for-us-military-drones\/"},"modified":"2018-04-05T19:28:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T18:28:02","slug":"presstv-google-employees-protest-work-for-us-military-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-google-employees-protest-work-for-us-military-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Google employees protest work for US military drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Thousands of Google employees, including dozens of senior engineers, have signed a letter protesting the company\u2019s involvement in a US military drone project, which has stirred concern among experts who think such cooperation is not ethical.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon program is testing the internet giant&#8217;s artificial intelligence (AI) system to analyze vast amounts of footage captured by the US military\u2019s unmanned surveillance planes around the world and to establish targets for drone strikes.<\/p>\n<p>More 3,100 staff are thought to have signed a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, demanding that the company pulls out of pilot experiment, called Project Maven.<\/p>\n<p>The program intends to help the Pentagon conduct more precise attacks by drones against targets in other countries, including Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that Google should not be in the business of war,\u201d says the letter. It asks that Google announce a policy that it will not \u201cever build warfare&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/04\/05\/557546\/Google-employees-drone-strikes-US-military\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Google employees, including dozens of senior engineers, have signed a letter protesting the company\u2019s involvement in a US military drone project, which has stirred concern among experts who think such cooperation is not ethical. The Pentagon program is testing the internet giant&#8217;s artificial intelligence (AI) system to analyze vast amounts of footage captured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355396","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\/355396","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}