This is not the case for the Google protest. The protest started in the division doing the work and spread to the rest of the company. If I recall correctly the

This is not the case for the Google protest. The protest started in the division doing the work and spread to the rest of the company. If I recall correctly the contract was to use machine learning to pre-process video footage for the US drone program in order to identify potential targets, thus freeing up the human labor of the drone pilots to more quickly identify and kill the people they’re hunting. Which I’ll remind everyone they’re doing with a flying killer robot. I don’t think this use-case was on the table when the Machine Learning experts and general software engineers joined. I think it’s quite reasonable to resist weaponizing machine learning. To say “I’m not comfortable making it cheaper and easier to kill large numbers of people at a distance” If you were to do as you suggest and found or spin off a company to work on weapon systems, at least the people who joined would know what they were signing up for. I do hope you’d find it difficult to recruit, and I fear you’d not find it impossible. I would like to think that thoughtful people would be able to see that building terrible weapons moves us closer to a world we shouldn’t be rushing to create.