One of the leaders of last year’s mass protests at Google has left the company, underlining a deepening rift between management and workers over issues ranging from sexual harassment to the potential risks of artificial intelligence. Encouraging open debate among workers on internal message boards has long been a part of Google’s culture. Other worker protests have erupted over a Google study into whether to launch a censored search engine in China, and a contract to handle automatic image recognition for U.S. military drones. She also called on Google workers to become more organized, including unionizing, in order to take greater control of decision making at the company. FT and Financial Times are trademarks of the Financial Times Ltd. Not to be redistributed, copied or modified in any way.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 16, 2019 23:05 UTC