{"id":61725,"date":"2026-06-04T06:21:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/61725\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:21:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:21:27","slug":"google-deepmind-employees-request-plans-to-keep-them-physically-safe-from-ice-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/61725\/","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind employees request plans to keep them ‘physically safe’ from ICE: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Employees at Google\u2019s DeepMind artificial intelligence lab reportedly demanded that management detail plans on how to keep them \u201cphysically safe\u201d from ICE after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.<\/a><\/p>\n

An unnamed DeepMind employee made the request Monday on an internal message board, according to Wired<\/a>, which obtained screenshots of the post. <\/p>\n

\u201cUS focused question: What is GDM doing to keep us physically safe from ICE? The events of the past week have shown that immigration status, citizenship, or even the law is not a deterrent against detention, violence, or even death from federal operatives,\u201d the worker was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Jan. 24 deadly shooting of Alexi Pretti set off firestorms across the US. via REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat kinds of plans and policies are in place to ensure our safety at the office? Coming to and from work? As we have seen, government agency tactics can change and escalate quite rapidly. With offices in many metro areas across the US, are we prepared?\u201d<\/p>\n

The post was sent to a channel with more than 3,600 employees, said a source familiar with the matter . About 40 of them interacted with the post, with many adding a \u201cplus emoji.\u201d<\/p>\n

Google did not comment.<\/p>\n

The post went unanswered by senior management as of Monday night, according to Wired.<\/p>\n

A DeepMind employee posted a separate message citing an incident in which a federal agent allegedly attempted to enter Google\u2019s office in Cambridge, Mass. The entry reportedly occurred at some point last fall, though it\u2019s unclear when the employee\u2019s message was posted.<\/p>\n

\"AA sign in the reception area at the Google DeepMind headquarters in London, UK, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s security chief responded to that message with details confirming that an \u201cofficer arrived at reception without notice\u201d and was \u201cnot granted entry because they did not have a warrant and promptly left.\u201d<\/p>\n

Google CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis have yet to weigh in publicly on the Pretti killing. DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean called the shooting \u201cabsolutely shameful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apple CEO Tim Cook said he was \u201cheartbroken\u201d by the events in Minneapolis and told employees it was \u201ctime for de-escalation,\u201d according to multiple reports. The exec said he\u2019s spoken to President Trump about the situation.<\/p>\n

OpenAI honcho Sam Altman said in an internal message that \u201cWhat\u2019s happening with ICE is going too far. There is a big difference between deporting violent criminals and what\u2019s happening now, and we need to get the distinction right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Employees at Google\u2019s DeepMind artificial intelligence lab reportedly demanded that management detail plans on how to keep them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[35322,25,309,5044,625,132,7543,23248,781],"class_list":["post-61725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-google","tag-alex-pretti","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-business","tag-deepmind","tag-donald-trump","tag-google","tag-google-deepmind","tag-ice","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}