Round 300 London-based members of Google’s AI-focused DeepMind staff are in search of to unionize with the Communication Staff Union, based on a Financial Times report that cites three folks concerned with the unionization effort.

These DeepMind workers are reportedly sad about Google’s resolution to take away a pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance from its web site. They’re additionally involved concerning the firm’s work with the Israeli navy, together with a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract that has prompted protests elsewhere at Google.

One supply informed the FT that staff members really feel “duped,” and correspondence reportedly exhibits that at the least 5 DeepMind workers members have stop citing these points. DeepMind has round  2,000 complete workers members in the UK. 

A Google spokesperson informed the FT that the corporate encourages “constructive and open dialogue with all of our workers.”

A small group of round 200 workers of Google and its mother or father firm Alphabet beforehand announced that they were unionizing, although as a union representing only a tiny slice of the overall Google workforce, it lacked the power to collectively discount.