Leaked Docs Reveal that Google Knew Israel's AI Use is Uncontrollable
#Google #ProjectNimbus #Alphabet #AIethics #BigTech #Israel #MilitaryTech #HumanRights #CloudComputing #CorporateResponsibility #EthicalAI #Gaza #Palestine
#ProjectNimbus
"Before signing its lucrative and controversial Project Nimbus deal with Israel, Google knew it couldn’t control what the nation and its military would do with the powerful cloud-computing technology, a confidential internal report obtained by The Intercept reveals.
The report makes explicit the extent to which the tech giant understood the risk of providing state-of-the-art cloud and machine learning tools to a nation long accused of systemic human rights violations and wartime atrocities. Not only would Google be unable to fully monitor or prevent Israel from using its software to harm Palestinians, but the report also notes that the contract could obligate Google to stonewall criminal investigations by other nations into Israel’s use of its technology. And it would require close collaboration with the Israeli security establishment — including joint drills and intelligence sharing — that was unprecedented in Google’s deals with other nations.
A third-party consultant Google hired to vet the deal recommended that the company withhold machine learning and artificial intelligence tools from Israel because of these risk factors.
Three international law experts who spoke with The Intercept said that Google’s awareness of the risks and foreknowledge that it could not conduct standard due diligence may pose legal liability for the company."
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/12/google-nimbus-israel-military-ai-human-rights/
#AI #Google #ProjectNimbus #ML #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #HumanRights #CloudComputing
Google knew it couldn’t control what Israel and its military would do with the powerful cloud-computing technology, a confidential internal report reveals. #ProjectNimbus
"Today marks one year since workers with No Tech for Apartheid staged sit-ins at Google offices to protest the use of our labor to power the genocide in Gaza, to demand an end the harassment and discrimination of our Palestinian, Muslim, and Arab coworkers, and to pressure executives to address the workplace health and safety crisis that Nimbus has caused. Google retaliated against workers and illegally fired 50 Googlers—including many who did not participate directly in the action.
In the year since, Google has only deepened its commitment to being a military contractor. Two months ago, in order to take advantage of the federal contracts the corporation can gain under Trump, Google abandoned its pledge not to build AI for weapons or surveillance. In rapid succession, Google then acquired Israeli cloud security start-up Wiz, pursued partnerships with US Customs and Border Patrol to update towers by Israeli war contractor Elbit Systems with AI at the US-Mexico border, and launched an AI partnership with the largest war profiteer in the world: Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon are no longer the only war corporations in town; Google and big tech are increasingly eating their lunch. Big tech companies are being pushed by the market to continue to bank returns. But having saturated the consumer and enterprise markets, corporations like Google, in a contentious arms race to dominate the cloud market, have identified the ever-ballooning so-called “defense” budgets of the US and other governments as major pots for profit.
One thing is clear: We urgently need an AI arms embargo."
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/google-employee-speaks-out-war-contracting/
#USA #Google #BigTech #Surveillance #AIWarfare #ProjectNimbus
Microsoft Fires Engineers After Protests Disrupt 50th Anniversary Over Israel AI Military Ties
#Microsoft #Gaza #Israel #AI #CloudComputing #Azure #BigTech #Protest #EmployeeActivism #TechEthics #NoAzureForApartheid #SatyaNadella #BillGates #ProjectNimbus #IDF #
Nee, ik ga niet van bank wisselen, maar heb wel flinke kritiek op het feit dat #Triodos nu #GooglePay aanbiedt. #Google is onderdeel van de voor #Trump buigende big-tech-maffia en medeverantwoordelijk voor de #genocide in #Gaza [1].
Ik hoor Triodos nu zeggen; 'ja maar onze klanten wilden dit graag'. Aan Triodos de opdracht om hun klanten te onderwijzen over het Google-gevaar. Doen ze niet. [2] Helaas zijn er geen andere banken die niet in kapitalistische projecten zoals de #klimaatcrisis en de #wapenindustrie investeren (nee, kom niet met de ASN aanzetten, want dat is de Volksbank). Maar Triodos steunt met het aanbieden van Google Pay dit indirect nu wel. Helaas is het bezitten van een bankrekening een verplichting in deze maatschappij.
[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/23/what-is-project-nimbus-and-why-are-google-workers-protesting-israel-deal
[2] https://www.triodos.nl/service/particulieren/betalen/google-pay
Don't let terms like 'the cloud' fool you. International tech companies are looking to extract profit, land, water and power from Ireland, and leave behind the power cuts, the fossil fuel dependency, the water shortages and a barren landscape. 🏭
This is colonialism in a new format. This is tech colonialism.
#datacentres #datacentreconvention #Ireland #climatechange #actnow #datacentremoratorium #extinctionrebellion #palestine #ProjectNimbus #ProjectLavender #AI
Remember that Google doesn't just perform for fascists by renaming geographical features on it's map. It also helps Israel maintain apartheid and conduct genocide
https://theintercept.com/2022/07/24/google-israel-artificial-intelligence-project-nimbus
#google #projectnimbus #apartheid #genocide #fascism #freepalestine
I wonder why Google is changing their tune...
Google now thinks it's OK to use AI for weapons and surveillance
#Google #AI #Weapons #Surveillance #Privacy #ProjectNimbus #Tech
Google Assisting Israel with AI for Use in Gaza War
#Google #Ai #ArtificialIntelligence #ProjectNimbus #Habsora #Gemini #Vertex #Amazon #ceasefire #humanrights #Israel #Gaza #IDF #Palestine #IRAN #Lebanon #Hezbollah #Hamas
Google Assisting Israel with AI for Use in Gaza War
#Google #Ai #ArtificialIntelligence #ProjectNimbus #Habsora #Gemini #Vertex #Amazon #ceasefire #humanrights #Israel #Gaza #IDF #Palestine #IRAN #Lebanon #Hezbollah #Hamas
When your own lawyers don't think it's a good idea...
Internal Google documents reveal concerns about its cloud contract with Israel
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24311951/google-project-nimbus-internal-documents
#Google #Leak #Cloud #ProjectNimbus #Israel #Genocide #FreePalestine #Tech
It turns out that Google officials and lawyers also had concerns about the company's 2021 contract with the Israeli government.
"Google Cloud services could be used for, or linked to, the facilitation of human rights violations, including Israeli activity in the West Bank."
Didn't stop them from firing dozens of employees who protested it.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24311951/google-project-nimbus-internal-documents
#google #ProjectNimbus #news #TechNews #WorkersRights #labor
Internal docs reveal that in early 2021, Google's lawyers and policy team raised concerns that its $1.2B Project Nimbus deal with Israel could potentially enable human rights violations. ⚖️🌍 #Google #HumanRights #ProjectNimbus #TechEthics #Israel #CorporateResponsibility #PrivacyConcerns
"When we sent letters to Amazon and Google, it was with direct, actionable questions about their involvement in Project Nimbus. We asked for transparency about their contracts, clients, and risk assessments. We called for evidence that due diligence had been conducted and demanded explanations of the steps taken to prevent their technologies from facilitating abuse.
Our core demands were straightforward and tied directly to the company’s commitments:
- Disclose the scope of their involvement in Project Nimbus.
- Provide evidence of risk assessments tied to this project.
- Explain how they are addressing credible reports of misuse.
Despite these reasonable and urgent requests, which are tied directly to the companies’ stated legal and ethical commitments, both companies have remained silent, and their silence isn’t just an insufficient response—it’s an alarming one."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/amazon-and-google-must-keep-their-promises-project-nimbus
#BigTech #Google #Amazon #ProjectNimbus #Israel #Palestine #HumanRights
An email and documents reveal Google's Project Nimbus deal with Israel isn't bound by Google's general TOS, but by an ‘adjusted’ TOS crafted by Google and Israel. 🇮🇱💻 #Google #ProjectNimbus #Israel #TechPolicy #DataPrivacy #TOS #TechDeals #CloudComputing #PrivacyConcerns
#ProjectNimbus collaboration between #Google, #Amazon Web Service and the Israeli Occupying Forces (#IOF).
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/do-not-support-the-first-genocide-carried-out-by-big-tech/
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