Defend this country from what? The most relevant threats I see to the country today are erosions of our traditions of civil discourse which is fundamental to a

Defend this country from what? The most relevant threats I see to the country today are erosions of our traditions of civil discourse which is fundamental to a functioning democracy (e.g we disagree, and through civil discourse we identify the precise ways we disagree, then we peacefully elect representatives to represent our points of view without resorting to violence. If we lose the ability to peacefully disagree or fairly elect our representatives, we are left with only one option and that leads to the destruction of our democracy and then our country is gone one way or another) and secondly the threat of large-scale conflict with an adversary with a comparable military. I just don’t see how increasing the efficiency of an already effective drone program protects against either of those threats. And as to the question of wanting people at google to work on it... I don’t think this sort of thing is what people join google to do. People interested in weapon systems probably go and work for known defense contractors and those companies do reasonably good work within the confines of their structure.