Comment Re:Meaning while in China, they keep advancing. (Score 3, Interesting) 60
I'm not sure why this got downvoted. This is a fundamental problem. It's the same problem Google faced in China with Search years ago when they actually did pull out and watched Microsoft and everybody else hurry in to fill the void.
Here I can understand to an extent: the workers are UK citizens (presumably). If you were a UK citizen, I'd imagine helping the USA advance its military capability (especially when you might not like the current administration) is a problem for you. But DeepMind is also its employees. What's Google supposed to do? Force them to move to the US and renounce their existing citizenship?
And I agree with other responses to this, as well: the US has made its own bed here over the last 40 years. If it was good policy to export all of this technology to distant corners of the world in the name of higher profits, while still relying on it for fundamental functions of government, where was anyone assessing the national security risk?
The only thing that the US can do is force Google to make their employees behave. The only way to do that is either by citing some national security concern (unlikely) or shop somewhere else (easier and much more likely).