In the year since, Google has deepened its foray into military contracting, dropping its pledge not to build AI for weapons/surveillance, acquiring Israeli cloud security start-up Wiz, partnering with CBP at the US-Mexico border, and launching an AI partnership with Lockheed Martin.
Emma shares NOTA’s position on the responsibility of tech workers in the face of worker repression & escalating, AI-powered fascism & genocide: Only a strong, organized mass base of workers taking collective action together can end the militarization of Google and tech at large.
“Workers have always resisted the weaponization of tech, from the United Farm Workers leveraging boycotts & labor strikes to the Black American workers who organized the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement against the use of Polaroid film tech in the passbooks of apartheid South Africa (and won)
Here, we can find a basis for treating solidarity as a workplace condition and organizing issue, and a way of building the necessary power not only to make small gains but to upend the power dynamic that allows our bosses to prioritize a genocide over our own voices.
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