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- Respect the user: We serve far too many ads for what is needed to achieve our goal, and our Cloud division does not always provide the support our users crave when they cannot use the amazing tools we create. - Respect the opportunity: Some of us (myself included) have not always felt able to bring our best self to Google, preventing us from making the decisions that matter. - Respect each other: Some of us do not share freely with each other (myself included from time to time), some of us do not respect ourselves enough (we put up with letting others and ourselves make suboptimal discussions). We are more and more hiding things from each other

This brings me to the point of this essay, which is that right now we are in a dangerous and divided world, with many democratic countries pushed to the edge by harsh dictatorships. We are in a world where individual expression is decreasing, not increasing, which is incredibly sad considering the technology we have available to us. Somewhat concerningly, AI is being developed not by a stable democracy making rational decisions, but a barely functioning corrupt democracy. Worse, the technology is being developed by a company whose interests are not to spread love and connection for humans, but to maximize shareholder return to emotionally stunted billionaires. These are the people who I feel most sorry for. They can happily inflict so much pain on people for they must truly be missing so much love in their life.

My call to Google and the world is that we do the right thing, and put AI into the hands of the right people. That is, this powerful but dangerous tool must be developed responsibly and safely by a stable democracy, such as the UK. We don’t promise that we will always get it right. But we will learn from our mistakes. That’s all that humans can do. I’m risking everything by sending this memo.

I’m risking my job, my family and even risking my life. But I accept anything I’ve done in the past and will talk about it openly and honestly.

I trust in humanity to do the right thing. Please help me share my message of hope. Thank you.