There was a video of Elon Musk talking about how they can only hire Citizens at SpaceX due to government restrictions. Same concept would apply to Google and DOD Work.
Directly? No. But the Google employees working on ReCaptcha know their work on training object recognition models will help the US military, and the ReCaptcha people aren’t only US citizen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_...
Nothing in my line of work comes close to ITAR, just business process automation. I’ll put money anything with AI and DOD in the job description will require polygraphs, background interviews, citizenship etc.
After they did few token delisting of opposition websites, Russian three letter service felt they finally snapped, and that they can have their own way with them.
They had to evacuate their most valuable cadres out of there to Switzerland, by giving Swiss canton an eye watering sum for a carte-blanche from their immigration office to resettle former Russian office staff there.
Armed men in black now frequent their office on Balchug. Now, with suitcases stuffed with god knows what on them.
(at least directly)
Quite a lot of those guys are on work permits in Canada.
Would you be okay if your AI works as American ends up in the hands of the Russian military?
Why should a German, or French, or Russian Google employee then accept that their work ends up in the hands of the US military?
EDIT: Yes, they won’t directly work on the drone program – but the drone program will more likely than not be reusing ML technology built all across Google, and everyone that worked on that now knows they are personally helping the US military-industrial complex.