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AI Ethics & Transparency
An incomplete collection of links about AI ethics in tech.
Codes of ethics, principles, pledges, petitions, letters:
- Amicus Brief for Anthropic PBC vs US Department of War, Mar 2026
- We Will Not Be Divided, Feb 2026
- No Tech For Apartheid: Worker Organizations And Unions Representing 700,000 Employees Demand: Amazon, Google, Microsoft Must Reject The Pentagon’s Demands, Feb 2026
- Googlers Against ICE, Feb 2026
- No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Condemn Internal Culture of Hate, Abuse, and Retaliation, Nov 2023
- We Are Google and Amazon Workers. We Condemn Project Nimbus, Oct 2021
- No GCP for CBP, Aug 2019
- Alan Winfield's Round Up of Ethical Principles of Robotics and AI, Apr 2019
- Google Must Drop Dragonfly, Nov 2018
- Lethal Autonomous Weapons pledge, Jul 2018
- ACM Ethics, Jun 2018
- AI at Google Principles, Jun 2018
- Action Network: An Open Letter to Microsoft: Drop your $19.4 million ICE tech contract, Jun 2018
- ICRAC Open Letter in Suport of Google Employees and Tech Workers, May 2018
- We believe that Google should not be in the business of war, Apr 2018
- neveragain.tech pledge, Dec 2016
- IEEE Code of Ethics
- IBM during World War II
Press:
- Business Insider: Google Told Staff Worried about Pentagon AI Deals that the Company Is 'Leaning More' into National Security Contracts, Mar 2026
- The New Yorker: The Pentagon Went to War with Anthropic. What's Really at Stake?, Mar 2026
- The Guardian: Anthropic-Pentagon battle shows how big tech has reversed course on AI and war, Mar 2026
- Tech Policy.Press: A Timeline of the Anthropic-Pentagon Dispute, Feb 2026
- Wired: More Than 800 Google Workers Urge Company to Cancel Any Contracts With ICE and CBP, Feb 2026
- The Washington Post: Google helped Israeli military contractor with AI, Feb 2026
- The Intercept: Google Worried It Couldn't Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal, May 2025
- Wired: Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance, Feb 2025
- The Intercept: Documents Contradict Google's Claims about Its Project Nimbus Contract with Israel, Dec 2024
- Time: Workers at Google DeepMind Push Company to Drop Military Contracts, Aug 2024
- Wired: The Hidden Ties Between Google and Amazon’s Project Nimbus and Israel's Military, Jul 2024
- Time: Google Workers Revolt Over $1.2 Billion Contract With Israel, Apr 2024
- Documents Reveal Advanced AI Tools Google Is Selling to Israel, Jul 2022
- CNBC: Google employees petition company to cancel police contracts, Jun 2020
- EFF: Google’s Leadership Still Needs To Give Details About Project Dragonfly: Googlers Can Still Help, Aug 2018
- Amnesty International: Open letter: Google must not capitulate on human rights to gain access to China, Aug 2018
- The NY Times: Google Employees Protest Secret Work on Censored Search Engine for China, Aug 2018
- The NY Times: Google, Seeking a Return to China, Is Said to Be Building a Censored Search Engine, Aug 2018
- The Intercept: Google Plans To Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal, Aug 2018
- Wired: Nonprofit for Migrants Declines a Donation from Salesforce, Jul 2018
- EFF: Should Your Company Help ICE? “Know Your Customer” Standards for Evaluating Domestic Sales of Surveillance Equipment, Jul 2018
- Microsoft: Facial recognition technology: The need for public regulation and corporate responsibility, Jul 2018
- Business Insider: Activists marched outside of the Salesforce headquarters in San Francisco to protest the company's contract with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Jul 2018
- CNBC: Silicon Valley firms are facing a rise in anger from a new source: Their own employees, Jul 2018
- Wired: Why Tech Worker Dissent Is Going Viral, Jun 2018
- Fortune: Google's Diane Greene Says Tech Companies Need to Set Boundaries for Using A.I., Jun 2018
- Bloomberg: Salesforce Staff Ask CEO to Revisit Ties With Border Agency, Jun 2018
- Gizmodo: Amazon Workers Demand Jeff Bezos Cancel Face Recognition Contracts With Law Enforcement, Jun 2018
- Bloomberg: Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts, Jun 2018
- Gizmodo: Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Contract, Jun 2018
- The NY Times: Microsoft Employees Protest Work With ICE, as Tech Industry Mobilizes Over Immigration, Jun 2018
- The NY Times: Amazon Urged Not to Sell Facial Recognition Technology to Police, Jun 2018
- ACLU: Over 150,000 People Tell Amazon: Stop Selling Facial Recognition Tech to Police, Jun 2018
- Jacobin: Tech Workers Versus the Pentagon, Jun 2018
- Gizmodo: Google Plans Not to Renew Its Contract for Project Maven, a Controversial Pentagon Drone AI Imaging Program, Jun 2018
- AI at Google: our principles, Jun 2018
- ACLU: Amazon Teams Up With Government to Deploy Dangerous New Facial Recognition Technology, May 2018
- Gizmodo: Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract, May 2018
- EFF: Google Should Not Help the U.S. Military Build Unaccountable AI Systems, Apr 2018
- The NY Times: ‘The Business of War’: Google Employees Protest Work for the Pentagon, Apr 2018
- Gizmodo: Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones, Mar 2018
ObDisclaimers: I do not speak for current or former employers. I do not believe everything I read in the press. I do not condone leaks.