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Google's head of Android security René Mayrhofer resigns in protest of the company's military AI contracts

Mayrhofer also criticized Google rolling back carbon-neutral commitments.

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Hugh Langley@HughLangley

Scoop: A Google director resigned over the company's AI deal with the Pentagon for classified work. "I am quite sad that it had to come to this, and desperately hope Google management re-discovers its moral compass," he wrote in a letter circulated internally

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Positive users called the resigning Android security head a hero for opposing Google's Pentagon AI deal, while many others labeled the move performative and mocked the company's abandoned principles.

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@ns123abc Nah, if you put "pacifist" in your tagline it's safe to assume that you'd have issue with *any* collaboration with DoW.

NIK@ns123abc

🚨Google’s head of Android security has RESIGNED over the Pentagon AI deal:

“Google management has lost its moral compass”

DON’T BE EVIL

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NIK@ns123abc

full resignation letter: http://mayrhofer.eu.org/post/leaving-google/

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Sophia@poffyit

@ns123abc Seems performative

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zach@battlerax

@ns123abc They stopped caring a long time ago. This guy’s moral compass is off.

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@ns123abc I’m beginning to viscerally hate people like this

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Sophia@poffyit

@Damhezy15 @ns123abc Maybe he’s European lol

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Amechi Nwandu@amechi_nwandu

@ns123abc Performative clown this guy

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hillofdirt@hillofdirt

@ns123abc Good.

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Hunter Gon@gonlenidefi

@ns123abc the dont be evil motto aged like milk stored next to a server rack

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Ruchir@heyruchir

@ns123abc European?

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Teo The Money East@teomoneyeast

@ns123abc No one will hire him in this mode of geopolitic

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@ns123abc He will be working at Palantir by next Tuesday.

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Popcorn.co@Popcorn_Co

@ns123abc google spent decades building dont be evil into their brand just to discover evil pays better

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scoot@lilscoot

@ns123abc this guy is goated. +respect post

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@ns123abc same energy as the openai safety team walkouts

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TXFX@tvo1

@ns123abc Bye. Bye‼️

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J-tweets@JTweetsTruth

@ns123abc Ministry of War? Does he think this is the UK? We have Departments here.

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nosmh@nosmh

@ns123abc 🤡

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