America is long overdue for a conversation about how we engage in war and peace the difference between the decision to go to war and decisions about what happens on the battlefield during warfare and what it means to fight, die and kill for our country. A response to Google’s work with the military on an artificial intelligence-based targeting system, the petition made a powerful and seemingly simple moral statement: “We believe that Google should not be in the business of war.” Similarly, Microsoft employees in February demanded that their company withhold its augmented reality HoloLens headset technology from the Army, saying they did not want to become “war profiteers.”Īs a Marine who has been in harm’s way a few times, I am glad that my peers in the tech industry have initiated this discussion. Last year, more than 4,600 Google employees signed a petition urging the company to commit to refusing to build weapons technology.
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