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Stanford Students Boycott Google Jobs Over Firm's Military Work
Google has for years been a top destination for graduates of Stanford University, but now a student-led campaign against the firm's controversial military work is trying to put a squeeze on its talent pipeline.
More than 100 students—including many from Stanford but also others from different colleges and universities—have signed a pledge to boycott interviewing at Google unless the Mountain View tech giant stops doing military projects.
"I actually dreamed of joining Google because I really believed tech was going to be this great force for good," says Niloufar Salehi, a computer science Ph.D. student at Stanford who signed the pledge. "Ever since I was in high school and I started coding, Google was this dream that I had."
The boycott campaign was triggered by Google's contract with the Pentagon to provide artificial intelligence expertise for the military drone program, in analyzing drone footage as part of "Project Maven."
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