Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military
saikatsg
121 points
23 comments
October 21, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (6 comments)
thereader12
So, apparently the bbc has started charging Americans.
utternerd
So 2 people are referenced in the article by name and Google has what, almost 200k employees?
stickfigure
This kind of extreme pacifism is exactly what Putin and Xi are hoping for.
pantsforbirds
So 2 engineers are named, both had pretty splashy blog posts, and Liguori appears to have timed her resignation with the release of two big interviews as well. Neither Liguori, nor Kirsch are American citizens. From what I can tell, neither even worked in America. I guess I don't see how this is news worthy? Would anyone care at all if two American engineers quit their tech jobs because the Canadian or Japanese militaries were contracting their product?
DivingForGold
Screw BBC's NagScreen, just use wallhop.io https://wallhop.io/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmreyve...
readthenotes1
I'm surprised that they did not resign in backlash from how behind Google has become in the AI domain