I fought against Google’s Pentagon Al deal from the inside.

He's lying because he couldn't.

Powerful people and institutions failed to keep their Al ethics promises under pressure.

lol, he really believed that crap?

Good writeup.

Scary stuff.

Hoemie looks sad af 😔

It's like when your job is to research about how to make electricity safe to use, you company, after they weighted "pros and cons" decided to sell your technology to making electric chairs.

Plus, Google’s executives likely hardened their company against stereotypical organizing tactics. Sit-ins, strikes, even a mass of Google engineers quitting: I deemed all of them ineffective (if I could even pull them off).

There's the problem. There are no other tactics that are effective in the face of significant profit. That said it's probably true that he couldn't pull that off himself. But the people who can - should. As these companies grab increasingly more power in the world, it gets increasingly important to unionise them as a method to claw back power. Still his work could serve as fuel for organising - by showing people the channels they were told should work - do not.