Google’s DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize

Round 300 London-based members of Google’s AI-focused DeepMind workforce are searching for to unionize with the Communication Employees Union, in response to a Financial Times report that cites three individuals concerned with the unionization effort.

These DeepMind workers are reportedly sad about Google’s resolution to take away a pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance from its web site. They’re additionally involved in regards to the firm’s work with the Israeli navy, together with a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract that has prompted protests elsewhere at Google.

One supply instructed the FT that workforce members really feel “duped,” and correspondence reportedly exhibits that no less than 5 DeepMind workers members have stop citing these points. DeepMind has round  2,000 whole workers members in the UK. 

A Google spokesperson instructed the FT that the corporate encourages “constructive and open dialogue with all of our workers.”

A small group of round 200 workers of Google and its father or mother firm Alphabet beforehand announced that they were unionizing, although as a union representing only a tiny slice of the entire Google workforce, it lacked the flexibility to collectively discount.