Google AI helped IDF drones with targeting in 2024 breaching its own policies

One key quote:

"The request from the IDF email address asked for help making Google’s Gemini more reliable at identifying objects such as drones, armored vehicles and soldiers in aerial video footage, according to the internal documents included with the complaint. Staff in Google’s cloud unit responded by making suggestions and doing internal tests, the documents said."

Another showing double standards:

“Many of my projects at Google have gone through their internal AI ethics review process,” the former employee who filed the complaint said in a statement to The Post, provided on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the company. “That process is robust and as employees we are regularly reminded of how important the company’s AI Principles are. But when it came to Israel and Gaza, the opposite was true. … I filed with the SEC because I felt the company needed to be held accountable for this double standard.”

1. Only sell to good countries

2. Only target bad people

(Company pitch when I accidentally ended up interviewing at a weapons manufacturer for their new edge GPU research.)

How did Israel get away with so much leeway from tech companies? It can't just be money. They are too small a market. What else is there?

Optics are everything. Amoral companies don't actually care. Water is wet.

Maybe I need to understand how the legal slave trade died.