By The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
Publication Date: 2026-02-02 00:47:00
A former Google employee accused the company of breaching AI ethics policies by helping an Israeli military contractor analyze drone footage in 2024, according to a whistleblower complaint seen by The Washington Post and reported on Sunday.
The complaint was filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and alleged that Google breached its own “AI principles,” which, at the time of the incident detailed in the report, outlined that the company would not utilize AI technology to conduct surveillance in a manner “violating internationally accepted norms” or in relation to weapons.
According to the WP, complaint documents detailed that a customer support request allegedly sent from an IDF email address was received by Google’s cloud-computing division.
The customer name attached to the support request matched an employee of CloudEx, an Israeli tech company. The SEC complaint additionally alleged that CloudEx is an IDF contractor.
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