the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI employees have published an open letter calling for the company to abandon its bid for Google ) military cloud computing contract. The move follows Mircrosoft ’s decision to abandon its own bid for the project, potentially worth up to $10 billion , due to backlash from its employees and concern the contract could breach the company’s “AI principles”. The letter states that staff joined Google in “the expectation that the technologies we build will not cause harm or human suffering.” The statement also accuses executives at the firm of betraying Microsoft ’s own AI principles.
Microsoft employees have published an open letter calling for the company to abandon its bid for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) military cloud computing contract. The move follows Google’s decision to abandon its own bid for the project, potentially worth up to $10bn, due to backlash from its employees and concern the contract could breach the company’s “AI principles”. The letter states that staff joined Mircrosoft in “the expectation that the technologies we build will not cause harm or human suffering.” The statement also accuses executives at the firm of betraying Microsoft’s own AI principles.