Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass

[rcjordan]

Google management has quietly abandoned the goals to become carbon-neutral because of the AI model energy usage. Worse, the current Google management is now signing deals with the US Ministry of War—where "any lawful purpose" by the current US government has already been repeatedly demonstrated to be in violation of international laws. None of this is being debated or communicated within the company. It is just decided by top-level management (I was part of the management chain before, and I hadn't heard of any of these changes through internal channels). With my moral and ethical principles, I cannot—explicitly or implicitly, directly or transitively—support the current and ongoing actions of the "Maximum lethality, not tepid legality" US Ministry of War. Given Google's top-level management direction and recent doubling-down, this unfortunately leaves me with the only choice to resign.

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