Android's security director quit Google over military contracts. The thread asked if his stock had vested (mayrhofer.eu.org)
His objection is specific: a pacifist EU academic who can't support work that could enable surveillance or offensive use against EU citizens, watching "Don't Be Evil" reverse without internal debate.
The cynics weren't shy: "Translation: now I can FIRE." The defenders weren't either — if adversaries build military AI, is being able to counter it the evil, or the absence of it?
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