The Google Whistleblower Taking on Big Tech Over Its Role in Gaza
The day Google DeepMind research engineer Sofia Liguori returned to work following the birth of her first child was the day her activism began.
The 32-year-old was part of the London-based frontier AI lab’s sustainability-focused Impact Accelerator team, tasked with identifying new ways the technology can be used for good. These range “from pathogen detection and crop resilience to medical countermeasure acceleration”, according to a LinkedIn post advertising new roles in the team.
Liguori’s own project focused on how AI could optimize electricity power flow to allow the national grid to use less energy and reduce overall carbon emissions. She told openDemocracy she now refers to her work as “building the nice face of the devil”.
“I felt so hypocritical that we were just talking about all these good things and not even mentioning Project Nimbus”, she said, speaking to openDemocracy from her home in south London, a Palestinian Keffiyeh scarf draped on the wall behind her.
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