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Employees working in Google DeepMind’s UK offices have voted to unionize over concerns about the company’s defense work with Israel and the Pentagon. Loading audio narration… If successful, DeepMind — which is central to Google’s efforts to develop artificial intelligence — would be the first frontier AI lab to unionize.In…

Google told employees that it was confident its work with the Department of Defense aligned with the company’s AI principles — and that it was “leaning more” into securing national security work with governments, Business Insider has learned.In a Google DeepMind town hall in January, leaders including CEO Demis Hassabis…