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recent bookmarks from jmJeff Bezos is wrong, tech workers are not bullies2018-11-14T10:59:32+00:00
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jmI decided to leave my job as a staff engineer at Google because of Project Maven, and because I believe that the artificial intelligence ethical guidelines they published afterwards were not strict enough: they allowed surveillance within “internationally accepted norms”.
I am now joining forces with current and former Google employees who also opposed Maven and the Dragonfly search engine. We do not wish to be complicit in human rights violations and we believe that workers, and the public, deserve a voice. We support employees at Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, McKinsey and Deloitte who have similarly stood up to their employers.
We also have a right to not contribute to killing. Most workers at Google or Amazon did not join those companies to work on military applications. Both companies are international employers with engineering offices across the world, and many of their workers are neither US citizens nor residents. I worked as an engineer in Google's European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. To me, the US military is not our military (as Google Cloud chief executive Diane Greene referred to it in a blog post), nor is it a force we should automatically support as a matter of patriotism.
As an engineer, I believe it is my responsibility to speak up for human rights and accountable decision making. As an industry, we in technology cannot compromise our principles or allow ourselves to be bullied by billionaires who stand to be enriched by our silence.
]]>project-maven dragonfly google amazon surveillance us-politics politics ai silicon-valley ethics work lifehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a9908b189f82/3 Lessons From The Amazon Takedown - Fortune2015-08-31T11:05:50+00:00
http://fortune.com/author/jeffrey-pfeffer/
jmamazon work work-life-balance life us fortune via:ldoody ceos employment happinesshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:62a930a56263/An Amazonian’s response to “Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace” — Medium2015-08-16T20:36:15+00:00
https://medium.com/@nickciubotariu/an-amazonian-s-response-to-inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace-b06ca4f6d53a
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