Google's ties to China under attack

Washington Free Beacon:
President Donald Trump’s top supporter in Silicon Valley said Sunday the United States needs to investigate Google's "seemingly treasonous" work with the Chinese military.

In a speech at the National Conservatism Conference, tech billionaire Peter Thiel addressed China's ties to Google, Axios reports. He asked whether Google's artifical intelligence initiatives have been infiltrated by foreign intelligence agencies.

"Does Google's senior management consider itself to have been thoroughly infiltrated by Chinese intelligence?" Thiel said.

"Is it because they consider themselves to be so thoroughly infiltrated that they have engaged in the seemingly treasonous decision to work with the Chinese military and not with the US military… because they are making the sort of bad, short-term rationalistic [decision] that if the technology doesn't go out the front door, it gets stolen out the backdoor anyway?" Thiel also asked.

"These questions need to be asked by the FBI and the CIA," Thiel added, according to Bloomberg. "And I’d like them to be asked in a not excessively gentle manner."

The artificial intelligence company DeepMind is a subsidiary of Alphabet, Google's parent company, and Thiel said its technology should be thought of as a potential "military weapon."

"We've been a lot more dishonest about that in Silicon Valley than the nuclear physicists were in the 1940s," he said.

Google's connections to China have led to internal dissent and public relations problems. Working in China has led Google to make numerous compromises on its stated values of openness, most notably in its development of a search engine in China that would be subject to censorship from Beijing. That project, internally known as "Dragonfly," led to the resignation of researcher Jack Poulson, who accused the company of deceiving employees about its cooperation with China.
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Google's close ties with the Chicoms is a concern.  When you also consider their overt hostility to the Trump administration the concern multiplies.  President Trump says he will look into Google's ties with China.

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