Google fires over 20 more employees over protest against contract with Israeli govt, Project Nimbus

2024-04-22 09:43 PM by Wanda Parisien

Google has reportedly fired more than 20 employees following sit-in protests at its offices in New York and California, according to a report by The Verge. This comes after the company dismissed 28 employees last week, bringing the total number of employees fired for protesting to nearly 50. The protests were against Google’s $1.2 billion …

Artificial intelligence now decides who lives and dies

2023-12-09 11:05 PM by Eugen Boglaru

Let’s start with the uncomfortable truth. We have lost control of artificial intelligence. This shouldn’t be too surprising, considering we likely never had any control over it. The maelstrom at OpenAI over the abrupt dismissal of its chief executive, Sam Altman, raised accountability questions inside one of the world’s most powerful AI companies. Yet even …