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A Military Contract Tests Google's Open Culture

Land of the Giants

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AI Could Save as Many Lives as It Can Harm

Meredith Whitaker says Google employees went into Maven's code base and saw evidence that seemed to contradict what executives were saying. She recalls Googlers raging on MemeGen, bringing up hostile questions about the project at TGIFs. In April 2018, roughly six months after Whitaker found out about the project, Google Management announced an internal global town hall. It would be all about Maven.

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