Tech Workers Now Want to Know : What Are We Building This For ?
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/technology/tech-workers-ask-censorship-surveillance.html
Jack Poulson, a Google research scientist, recently became alarmed by reports that the company was developing a search engine for China that would censor content on behalf of the government. While Dr. Poulson works on search technologies, he had no knowledge of the product, which was code-named Dragonfly. So in a meeting last month with Jeff Dean, the company’s head of artificial intelligence, Dr. Poulson asked if Google planned to move ahead with the product and if his work would (...)
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