Google rushed to sell AI tools to Israel’s military after Hamas attack

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-rushed-to-sell-ai-tools-to-israel-s-military-after-hamas-attack/ar-AA1xCnZi

Google employees have worked to provide Israel’s military with access to the company’s latest artificial intelligence technology from the early weeks of the Israel-Gaza war, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

The internal documents show Google directly assisting Israel’s Defense Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces, despite the company’s efforts to publicly distance itself from the country’s national security apparatus after employee protests against a cloud computing contract with Israel’s government.

Google fired more than 50 employees last year after they protested the contract, known as Nimbus, over fears it could see Google technology aid military and intelligence programs that have harmed Palestinians.

In the weeks after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas militants, a Google employee in its cloud division escalated requests for increased access to the company’s AI technology from Israel’s Defense Ministry, the documents obtained by The Post show.

The documents, which detail projects inside Google’s cloud division, indicate that the Israeli ministry urgently wanted to expand its use of a Google service called Vertex, which clients can use to apply AI algorithms to their own data.

A Google employee warned in one document that if the company didn’t quickly provide more access, the military would turn instead to Google’s cloud rival Amazon, which also works with Israel’s government under the Nimbus contract.

Another document, from mid-November 2023, showed the employee thanking a co-worker for helping handle the Defense Ministry request. The documents do not indicate exactly how the Defense Ministry planned to use Google’s AI technology or how it might have contributed to military operations.

Other documents dated from the spring and summer of 2024 show Google employees requesting additional access to AI technology for the IDF.

As recently as November 2024, by which time a year of Israeli airstrikes had turned much of Gaza to rubble, documents show Israel’s military was still tapping Google for its latest AI technology. Late that month, an employee requested access to the company’s Gemini AI technology for the IDF, which wanted to develop its own AI assistant to process documents and audio, according to the documents.

Spokespeople for the IDF, Google and Amazon all declined to comment for this article.

 

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