Google employees directly assist IDF, Defense Min., Washington Post reveals
Google has been directly assisting the IDF and Israel's Defense Ministry, an exclusive Washington Post report revealed on Wednesday.
Since the first few weeks of the Israel-Hamas war, the employees at Google have worked to provide Israel's military with access to its most advanced artificial intelligence, the report continues.
This has happened contrary to Google's public efforts to separate itself from Israel's military and security bodies, following protests by its own employees over a cloud computing contract with the Israeli government.
The Washington Post, citing documents it obtained, claimed that a Google employee in the cloud division expedited requests from Israel's Defense Ministry for increased access to Google AI.
According to the report, Israel wished to quickly increase its use of Google's Vertex service, a machine learning platform that allows users to train and deploy ML models and AI. Google Headquarters. AI Recognizes Emotions (credit: SHUTTERSTOCK)
The incentive for expediting the request reportedly stemmed from fears that not providing urgent access to Vertex would push the IDF toward Google's cloud rival, Amazon.
