Google AI engineer claims dismissal for opposing tech sales to Israel

An artificial intelligence (AI) research engineer is taking legal action against Google, claiming the company unlawfully dismissed them for internally raising concerns about its complicity in war crimes. The engineer, who worked at Google DeepMind, used internal discussion forums, emails and flyers to question the company’s provision of cloud computing services and AI technologies to Israeli military forces, which have been credibly accused of committing genocide in Gaza . After Google dropped its longstanding pledge to not develop AI-powered weapons and surveillance tools in February 2025 , the engineer also signed a petition – alongside several hundred colleagues – calling for the company to reverse this decision. Following this, the engineer was called into a meeting with Google’s human resources department, where they were “actively discouraged” from making any communications that either criticised the change to Google’s AI principles, or linked the company to Israel’s conduct in G