Bezos says 'the country is in trouble' if big tech turns its back on Pentagon: 'We are the good guys'
Last year, Google announced that it was working with the U.S. military to analyze drone videos by using artificial intelligence.
The controversial contract, dubbed Project Maven, caused thousands of employees to protest the initiative.Google decided to not renew the contract upon its expiry in March 2019Loosely referencing the sequence of events in the wake of Google's Project Maven, Bezos said that tech firms should support the U.S. military's efforts.
"I know it's complicated but you know, do you want a strong national defense or don't you? I think you do. So we have to support that," he said.Bezos' comments come on the heels of Amazon's decision to contest the Pentagon's cloud-computing contract awarded to Microsoft.The Pentagon said Oct. 25 that Microsoft had won the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud contract, which could span 10 years and be worth up to $10 billion.
"Numerous aspects of the JEDI evaluation process contained clear deficiencies, errors, and unmistakable bias — and it's important that these matters be examined and rectified," Amazon told CNBC in an email.
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