++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To sign leave a comment with: name, department, school, expected graduation ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We are students opposed to the weaponization of technology by companies like Google and Microsoft. Our dream is to be a positive force in the world. We refuse to be complicit in this gross misuse of power. In a recent NYT op-ed Stanford prof. Fei Fei Li and Chief Scientist of AI/ML, Vice President of Google Cloud wrote that an important goal of human centered AI is "ensuring that the development of this technology is guided, at each step, by concern for its effect on humans." Technology companies that have vast quantities of sensitive data from users across the globe should not build offensive technology for any country’s military. If Google truly wants to build humane AI, they cannot be in the business of technology for warfare, they must take a stand. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Project Maven is a United States military program aimed at using machine learning to analyze massive amounts of drone surveillance footage and to label objects of interest for human analysts. Google is supplying not only the open source ‘deep learning’ technology, but also engineering expertise and assistance to the Department of Defense. According to Defense One, Joint Special Operations Forces “in the Middle East” have conducted initial trials using video footage from a small ScanEagle surveillance drone. The project is slated to expand “to larger, medium-altitude Predator and Reaper drones by next summer” and eventually to Gorgon Stare, “a sophisticated, high-tech series of cameras…that can view entire towns.” With Project Maven, Google becomes implicated in the questionable practice of targeted killings. These include so-called signature strikes and pattern-of-life strikes that target people based not on known activities but on probabilities drawn from long range surveillance footage. The legality of these operations has come into question under international and U.S. law. - Open letter in Support of Google Employees and Tech Workers, International Committee for Robot Arms Control [3] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We, students, feel compelled to follow the lead of over four thousand Google employees who have spoken out against Project Maven in a letter to their CEO: “We believe that Google should not be in the business of war.” [1], as well as the dozen who have resigned in protest [2]. Their protests were supported by an open letter signed by over a thousand academics on the International Committee for Robot Arms Control [3]. The Tech Worker’s Coalition has also published a petition signed by over three hundred tech workers, demanding that Google terminate its contract with the Department of Defense (DoD) [4]. On June 1st, 2018 Google announced that it would not extend project Maven [5]. This is a huge win for those who took a stand. But we need much more. We, students, pledge that we will: First, do no harm. Refuse to participate in developing technologies of war: our labor, our expertise, and our lives will not be in the service of destruction. Refrain from interviewing with Google until it fully withdraws from its contract with the Department of Defense (Project Maven) and fully commits not to develop military technologies in the future, nor to allow the personal data it has collected to be used for military operations. Abstain from working for technology companies that fail to reject the weaponizing of their technology for military purposes. Instead, push our companies to pledge to neither participate in nor support the development, manufacture, trade or use of autonomous weapons; and to instead support efforts to ban autonomous weapons globally. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Instructions for signing: Leave a comment with: name, department, school, expected graduation To have your student organization sign email us at: [email protected] (postdocs and recent grads are welcome to sign) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Niloufar Salehi, Computer Science, Stanford University, 2018 Dan Walls, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 2018 Gilbert Bernstein, Computer Science, Stanford University, 2018 Michael Mara, Computer Science, Stanford University, 2018 Mark Whiting, Computer Science, Stanford University, Postdoctoral Scholar Ali Alkhatib, Computer Science, Stanford University, 2020 Vera Khovanskaya, Information Science, Cornell University, 2020 Sarah Tran, Symbolic Systems, Stanford Univeristy 2020 Afshin Nikzad, Economics and MS&E, Stanford University, 2018 Forest Peterson, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 2018 Alex Ahmed, Computer Science, Northeastern University Jingyi Li, Computer Science, Stanford University, 2022 Elizabeth Murnane, Computer Science, Stanford University, Postdoctoral Scholar Maryam Aliakbarpour, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science, MIT Ethan Li, Computer Science, Stanford University, 2018 Palashi Vaghela, Information Science, Cornell University, 2021 Ailie Fraser, PhD Student, Computer Science, UC San Diego Vineet Pandey, Computer Science, UC San Diego, 2019 Pesho Ivanov, Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Ph.D. student, 2022 Noopur Raval, Informatics, University of California Irvine, 2019 Ameneh Shamekhi, Computer Science, Northeastern University, 2019 Mehrdad Farajtabar, Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech, 2018 Hamid Reza Hassanzadeh, Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech, 2018 Sahar Harati, Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, 2019 Elias Khalil, Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech Ahmer Arif, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Wa...

About 6 years ago I had the misfortune out of necessity to move back to Pottstown due to a domestic abuse situation, almost immediately I began experiencing problems with the school district, they made reports to children and youth about the oddest things, they made reports that my children didn't go to school when they did, and I'm not the lay down and take it type, never have been, never will be, one of the advantages of having been a victim of domestic abuse via the courts, I've become well acquainted with the law in this area, so I'm not one that's easily pushed around in a court room, or by any power hungry people standing in abuse in their position, when taken to court, I always beat it, when the school started to realize that they could not "subdue me" by taking me to court, because I know my rights and the law, they decided to call children and youth regarding truancy, by this time we were technically homeless and covered under the McKinney-Vento act, (I had neared bother truancy cases because of this but they conned me into giving them a mailing address and then tried saying I wasnt homeless because I had an address for mail and temporary housing, which by the way, "doubling up" is still homeless under the law), children and youth proceeded to invade my life and the homes of the people I stayed with and harass and Nate and switch and next thing you know, poof, we're in court and my kids are gone after a year and a half of cooperation and following the family service plan, even though we are supposed to be covered under the special education act, McKinney-Vento act, and my children have special illnesses and mental health problems which I was managing just fine in my own until these people got involved, they are housed at Bethany children's home where my girls are not properly cared for and they're having serious health and mental health issues, and my son is exposed to daily violence and irratic behaviors of very disturbed children who are probably experiencing the same problem, on one such incident, a staff member encouraged 2 young men in the group home to beat to near death another young man because he supposedly stole the staff members SIM card, it was actually in the news, I barely see my children, at one point they had home passes, which were quickly snatched away because my daughter had a hicky, which, first of all, that's a morals or values decision between myself and my daughter, and second, visits with a parent or other family and friends should not be used as a punishment or reward, I'm lucky if I get to see my kids once a week, talk to them on the phone for 5 minutes at a time and I am in severe shock and having issues with ptsd myself as well as it's causing me physical health issues, this kind of treatment of myself and children's human and privacy rights as well as the laws bypassed or broken entirely is cruel and unusual, as well as unnecessary, given there were no proven cases of abuse or neglect on my part whatsoever, if you're as enraged as I am, are dealing with a similar issue, let's get this addressed to prevent further family and loved one alienation, if you're not enraged or bothered by this, you should be, this can and does happen to anyone, unless of course you have enough money to fight back, which of course most that this happen to do not, please join me in my fight to protect our families and freedoms!!!

Saving the Mets.

I touched the screen of my new cell phone in Oct. 2016 and a pain shot up my arm and changed my life. It tried to give me breast cancer but I'm a health nut and knew what to do, but ischemic strokes are up, brain tumors are up...epidemic illness already exists in this Rx pill-popping nation. We makeup 5% of the globe but consume 70% of the Rx drug supply AND we're in last place for health according to the 2014 Social Index Report. CAN WE PLEASE STOP BEING SO FOOLISH?

James is a working young man who is the sole provider of his family and Marijuana is legal this situation does not warrant 5 years in prison. His constitutional rights have been violated, as well as his civil rights and he is in a prejudice county Prescott AZ where the Judge is doing what she want to do

Since incorporation Cottonwood Heights city budget has increased by leaps and bounds on a yearly basis. The city council is about to pass the budget for the fiscal year. There is an approximate $2 million shortfall. Without citizen input property taxes could go up by a significant amount.

Signatures to Support Our Children, Our Future, Education, and Moral Standards in Schools!!

This "President" is starving the people of Uganda of 16 of their human rights Any Large problem that Affects the World affects you in some way and if it does not it probably will in the future, so help me by helping them to help you. Thank You.

We should have a say in this decision.

We start this petition to show our continued support for Joy Ann Reid.

We need to do SOMETHING to help curb the number of school shootings.

Styrofoam has been banned from Montgomery County since 2016. Styrofoam is not only bad for the environment it is also bad for humans. Styrofoam also known as polystyrene, is a material that can not be broken down or reused again. Objects such as styrofoam cups get trashed and end up in the ocean or in the streets, where wildlife mistakenly consume them. When styrofoam is burned it releases carbon monoxide into the air. The harm styrofoam has on humans is that when you use styrofoam materials such as cups for hot liquids you are consuming the toxins made up of styrofoam. These toxins can cause headaches, weakness, and minor kidney failure.