> Eight years ago, Maven was the most contested project in Silicon Valley. In 2018, more than 4,000 Google employees signed a letter opposing the company’s contract to build artificial intelligence for the Pentagon’s targeting systems.
Ah remember when people had hope that Silicon Valley wasn't just gonna end up being another arm of the military industrial complex? I recently revisited Donna Haraway's cyborg manifesto[0] and was struck by how much hope there was for Silicon Valley being something different
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> Eight years ago, Maven was the most contested project in Silicon Valley. In 2018, more than 4,000 Google employees signed a letter opposing the company’s contract to build artificial intelligence for the Pentagon’s targeting systems.
Ah remember when people had hope that Silicon Valley wasn't just gonna end up being another arm of the military industrial complex? I recently revisited Donna Haraway's cyborg manifesto[0] and was struck by how much hope there was for Silicon Valley being something different
[0] https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/under...