US tech giants, together with Google, Meta and Amazon, face pushback from their staff for supporting Israel’s army.
After Amazon and Google signed a $1.2bn contract to launch Venture Nimbus, offering cloud know-how to the Israeli authorities and the army, tech staff began to note extra Israeli use of synthetic intelligence towards 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 lately fired for protesting towards 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 know-how used for oppression, surveillance, warfare and apartheid.