Today, more than 180 Google employees are speaking out against the appointment of Kay Coles James to its Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC), a Board setup to inform Google’s decisions around Artificial Intelligence and other technologies.

James is the President of the Heritage Foundation, and is vocally anti-immigrant, anti-trans, and anti-LGBTQ.

AI technology can be used to target marginalized groups and violate human rights in an automated fashion at a mass scale. It’s unthinkable that Google would put someone with such extremist views in a position to influence technology that can be used to discriminate and cause harm.

We need to send a strong message to Google leadership right now to make sure James is removed from their AI Board. Google employees are speaking out, and one member of the board already resigned over the controversy. We can win this but we need to turn up the pressure.

Sign the petition calling on Kent Walker, Google’s Senior Vice President for Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer, and all Google leadership: “Take action against transphobia and hate: remove Kay Cole James from your AI ethics council.”