The DeepMind employee tells WIRED that if the staff succeeds in unionizing in the UK, they will likely demand that Google pull out of its long-standing contract with the Israeli military and seek greater transparency over how its AI products will be used, with some sort of assurance relating to layoffs made possible by automation.

All good things. Layoffs based on AI aren’t really that provable, so I see it as beneficial to put the squeeze on a company that otherwise has a financial benefit in using it as a scapegoat