Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US military
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Workers developing https://www.theguardian.com/technology/google">Google’s https://www.theguardian.com/technology/technology+artificialintelligenceai">artificial intelligence products in the https://www.theguardian.com/uk">UK have voted to unionize, in part out of concerns about a deal between the company and the US military that was announced last week.
In a letter slated to go to management on Tuesday and shared exclusively with the Guardian, workers at Google https://www.theguardian.com/technology/deepmind">DeepMind, the company’s AI research laboratory, requested recognition of the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives of the lab’s UK-based staff.
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