> we're so righteous we won't take Pentagon contacts.

I think you mean "won't renew". They already took them.

Yea, joke is on us, because they'll still develop the thing they told the pentagon they would develop, all while appearing to be 'good guys' to people (which is apparently quite a few people) who don't understand how contracts work.

New ReCAPTCHA: select the correct person for a drone strike to proceed.

I don't think it's original to him, but Joey Hess (joeyh on Hacker News) posted an image of that concept:

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/prove_you_are_not_an_Evil_corp...

I like to pretend that google is asking users to answer captcha questions to help waymo cars drive. "Which images contain a stop sign"...

I also thought they were training image recognition for self-driving cars. I also thought it was an ingenious way to solve two problems at once.

Very probably they actually do.

.. but in real time.

What stops Google from forming a shell corp to handle government contracts? They can profit off the shell corp while allowing them unfettered, royalty free access to their internal technology. They can staff the shell corp with smart people who aren't anti-government, and even continue to employ them at Google so no one knows what's going on.

I don't see why working on your country's DoD contract is for "bad guys".

Remember the guys building ARPANet for, well, the military's Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Those existing contracts are about see quite a few "scope changes"

I doubt that, and you have no way to prove it.

Whether google does it or not, China will.