{"id":1007094,"date":"2026-05-07T10:22:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007094"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:57:00","slug":"google-deepmind-uk-staff-move-to-unionise-over-military-ai-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/07\/google-deepmind-uk-staff-move-to-unionise-over-military-ai-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind UK staff move to unionise over military AI use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK employees at Google&#8217;s AI lab DeepMind on Tuesday requested official recognition of two unions, as concern grows over the company&#8217;s technology being used by the US and Israeli militaries. <\/p>\n<p>Workers requested recognition of the Communication Workers Union and Unite in a letter to management shared by the CWU on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The unionising DeepMind workers are seeking an end to use of Google AI by Israel and the US military,&#8221; the CWU said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK employees at Google&#8217;s AI lab DeepMind on Tuesday requested official recognition of two unions, as concern grows over the company&#8217;s technology being used by the US and Israeli militaries. Workers requested recognition of the Communication Workers Union and Unite in a letter to management shared by the CWU on Tuesday. &#8220;The unionising DeepMind workers are seeking an end to use of Google AI by Israel and the US military,&#8221; the CWU said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}