US tech giants, together with Google, Meta and Amazon, face pushback from their employees for supporting Israel’s navy.
After Amazon and Google signed a $1.2bn contract to launch Challenge Nimbus, offering cloud expertise to the Israeli authorities and the navy, tech employees began to note extra Israeli use of synthetic intelligence in opposition to the Palestinian individuals.
Lots of these engineers have turn into activists for “No Tech for Genocide”, together with Zelda Montes, who was one of many dozens of Google workers who had been just lately fired for protesting in opposition to their firm’s involvement with Israel.
Montes and tech entrepreneur Paul Biggar, who based Tech for Palestine, inform host Steve Clemons why they refuse to construct expertise used for oppression, surveillance, warfare and apartheid.