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Re:We work for Google. Our employer shouldn't be in the busi... by wil421 on Thursday April 05, 2018 @08:32AM (#16764189)
You must not know how these things work. If they are working with the DOD they are probably American citizens on American soil. Especially if anything is classified, I’d put money AI is.

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.

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Re:We work for Google. Our employer shouldn't be in the busi... by kuschku on Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:12AM (#16764535)
> You must not know how these things work. If they are working with the DOD they are probably American citizens on American soil. Especially if anything is classified, I’d put money AI is.

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.

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Re:We work for Google. Our employer shouldn't be in the busi... by kingkongjaffa on Thursday April 05, 2018 @08:35AM (#16764242)
ITAR Rules for rocketry technology is absolutely not the same thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_...

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Re:We work for Google. Our employer shouldn't be in the busi... by wil421 on Thursday April 05, 2018 @03:33PM (#16768184)
I’m a web dev and looked at federal jobs that required a citizenship at minimum and at max a clearance with polygraphs.

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.

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