Iran has announced that US tech companies who collaborate with the US military are now considered legitimate targets. I can’t argue that they’re wrong; this is _natural culmination_ of many years of unethical policymaking.I resigned from Google back in 2018 in protest of the policies and leadership that created this situation. My resignation letter explicitly included my objections to “broadening US military surveillance”, “attempt[ing] to hide the company’s involvement from employees and the public”, “failure to respect our many non-US and immigrant colleagues”, “making strawmen of legitimate objections”, and perhaps most damningly “leadership apparently does not accept that [providing customized AI tools to the US military] is ethically wrong, but instead views it as a messaging failure.”https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/iran-threatens-imminent-attacks-on-us-tech-companies-in-the-middle-east-184841155.html
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