The partnership will also include links to the UK's AI Security Institute, to help ensure that "AI is developed safely and responsibly". So obviously we're trying to head another NHS data scandal off at the pass here, though of course the press release doesn't mention it by name.
Only, there's one small problem with trying to ensure that this new AI development is safe and responsible. That is, Google is already selling the AI tech it develops to Israel. Presumably it's helping to ensure that the genocidal war machine stays up to date with the modern world in a safe, responsible fashion.
Back in April 2024, Google employees staged protests against their work being used to fuel Israeli apartheid. Reporting on the demos, Al Jazeera explained that:
Known as Project Nimbus, the joint contract between Google and Amazon signed in 2021 aims to provide cloud computing infrastructure, artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology services to the Israeli government and its military
Tina Vachovsky, a software engineer at Google, said:
It is impossible to feel excited and energised to work when you know your company is providing the Israeli government products that are helping it commit atrocities in Palestine.
Google fired 28 of its employees for their participation in the protests. It claimed that they had violated the company code of conduct and its "harassment, discrimination and retaliation" policy. On top of that, cops arrested nine Google employees for their part in the demos at New York and Sunnyvale.
Google released a statement insisting that the Nimbus contract:
is not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services.
However, the Israeli military has been a stakeholder since the contract's very beginnings. The Times of Israel also reported that the contract specifically prevents Google and Amazon from halting services to the Israeli government due to boycotts.
More recently, in April 2025, Reuters reported that UK DeepMind employees are looking to unionise. More specifically, they were looking to join the Communication Workers Union (CWU), specifically in order to challenge their employer's ties to the Israeli military.
Roughly 300 workers at the company's London office were involved in the unionisation drive. One engineer stated that:
We're putting two and two together and we think the technology we're developing is being used in the conflict in Gaza.
This is basically cutting-edge AI that we're providing to an ongoing conflict. People don't want their work used like this.
This is the company that Kendall, Starmer, and the Labour Party want the UK to have a hand in. A company that's busy funneling smarter and smarter tech to Israel and its military. And, for that matter, a company that fires its employees when they try to object.
Actually, you know what? When you put it that way, Labour and Google Deepmind sound like they were made for one another.