Will Google’s Activist Employees Impede Its Cloud March?

Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google is drafting ethical principles to guide the use of its technology in military activities, according to CNBC. Google’s decision to consider creating a code of ethics on military contracts is believed to be in response to outrage among thousands of its employees after it was reported that the company had agreed to supply the US Department of Defense (or DoD) with artificial intelligence (or AI) technology to help analyze drone data. More than 3,000 Google employees signed a letter urging the company’s leadership to keep out of “the business of war.” The employees asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai to withdraw from the contract to supply the DoD with AI technology to help with the analysis of drone footage.