sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoGoogle DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals | UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.www.wired.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1263arrow-down11
arrow-up1262arrow-down1external-linkGoogle DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals | UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.www.wired.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squaremycodesucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·9 days agoAs soon as people stop looking, Google will shut down the whole office. It’s how tons of huge companies get around “can’t lay off union workers”.
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·9 days agoThey just spent £1.3bn on building that office Even the most egregious caricature of a union buster is gonna baulk at throwing that investment away
minus-squaremerdaverse@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoThat’s pocket change for Google, which made $132 bn profit just last year. They can sell it and write off the small difference as a loss.
minus-squaremycodesucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-29 days agoThey can rent out or sell the building and recoup a measure of that investment. It’s nothing compared to the windfall they’ll get from selling snake oil on a military procurement contract.
As soon as people stop looking, Google will shut down the whole office. It’s how tons of huge companies get around “can’t lay off union workers”.
They just spent £1.3bn on building that office
Even the most egregious caricature of a union buster is gonna baulk at throwing that investment away
That’s pocket change for Google, which made $132 bn profit just last year. They can sell it and write off the small difference as a loss.
They can rent out or sell the building and recoup a measure of that investment. It’s nothing compared to the windfall they’ll get from selling snake oil on a military procurement contract.