Laura Nolan

Staff Site Reliability Engineer · Google · 2018

ResignedExplicitly stated

Evidence reviewed July 22, 2026

What happened

Staff site reliability engineer who resigned after being asked to help modify Google's cloud platform to enable Project Maven, the Pentagon's AI drone-surveillance program. She warned that AI-based weapons systems "could accidentally start a flash war" and became a prominent voice in the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

Departed June 2018; the exact day is not publicly documented.

Military Applications

Sources

Former Google Engineer Warns Using AI in Weapons Could 'Start a Flash War'Newsweek
Laura Nolan — International Committee for Robot Arms ControlICRAC

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