Google's DeepMind UK Team Reportedly Seeks to Unionize

'Google's DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize,' reports TechCrunch:

Around 300 London-based members of Google's AI-focused DeepMind team are seeking to unionize with the Communication Workers Union, according to a Financial Times report that cites three people involved with the unionization effort.

These DeepMind employees are reportedly unhappy about Google's decision to remove a pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance from its website. They're also concerned about the company's work with the Israeli military, including a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract that has prompted protests elsewhere at Google.
At least five DeepMind employees quit, according to the report (out of a 2,000 total U.K. staff members).

'A small group of around 200 employees of Google and its parent company Alphabet previously announced that they were unionizing,' the article adds, 'though as a union representing just a tiny slice of the total Google workforce, it lacked the ability to collectively bargain.'

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