Tell Google: Stop Using Your AI for Genocide, Apartheid, and Border Violence
This week, while Google hosts its Google Cloud Next conference in an attempt to whitewash its complicity in genocide and militarism, its tech is being weaponized against Palestinians, migrants, and communities of color to fuel more death and destruction at home and abroad.
Over the past few weeks, Google has taken two major steps towards becoming a full fledged military contractor: they announced a new AI partnership with the world’s largest weapons manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, and a new contract between Google Cloud and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to “upgrade the so-called virtual wall.” These new contracts are in addition to their existing $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government and military, and its $32 billion acquisition of Israeli cloud security start-up Wiz earlier this year.
Through these contracts, Lockheed Martin and CBP will be outfitted with Google’s machine learning capabilities, allowing them to develop deadlier weapons and more sophisticated surveillance systems that could supercharge the genocide in Gaza and the ongoing atrocities at the border.
With Trump in office, the re-escalation of the genocide in Gaza, and ramping up of the mass detention-deportation machine, it has never been more urgent for Google leadership to listen to their workers by refusing to deploy tech for militarism.
Earlier this year, Google dropped its AI principles, their official commitment not to deploy AI for weapons or surveillance. On top of their new partnerships with Lockheed Marin and CBP, Google just announced a new contract with the United Arab Emirates while its government backs the ongoing genocide in Sudan. With the back-to-back announcements of partnerships with genocidal regimes and weapons companies, Google leadership is turning their code into weapons. But workers will continue to organize to resist the militarization of their company and weaponization of their labor.
Google and Amazon workers with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign have been leading the charge to demand an AI arms embargo and demand that Google and Amazon end their complicity in the Israeli occupation and U.S. prison and deportation machine. Last year, out of fear of their workers’ power, Google illegally fired over 50 workers for staging historic coast-to-coast sit-ins against Project Nimbus.
Right now, as Google hosts its highest profile event of the year, we have a special opportunity to flood the inboxes of Google’s press team.
Use this tool to tell Google: Listen to your workers. Stop deploying AI technology for genocide and militarism, and re-establish Google’s AI Principles and commitment to human rights.
