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100+ Meta employees, including Head of AI Policy, confirmed as ex-IDF (thegrayzone.com)

submitted 1 week ago by IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Shira Anderson, an American international rights lawyer, is Meta’s AI policy chief who voluntarily enlisted for the IDF in 2009 under a program which enables non-Israeli Jews who aren’t eligible for military conscription to join the Israeli army.

With AI a critical emerging technology for tech giants and militaries, Anderson’s role at Meta is an important one. She develops the legal guidance, policies and public relations talking points concerning AI issues and regulation for all of Meta’s key areas, including its product, public policy and government affairs teams.

At Meta, Anderson, who is based in Meta’s Washington DC office, is in familiar company. More than one hundred former Israeli spies and IDF soldiers are employed by the company, my new investigation shows, many of whom worked for Israel’s spy agency Unit 8200.

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[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's very clear sometimes who wants suffering and who actually wants peace.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ok? Don't quite know how this relates to my comment about legislation behind armed conflict and the definition of "civilian" though. Did you respond to the wrong person?

[–] lud@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm on your side mate.

I'm equally annoyed when people want civilians to die no matter who.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago

Ah, alright then. I didn't really understand what your comment was referring to at first.