Google is in the middle of another controversy involving its employees and AI tools. The software giant faced an internal backlash and public scrutiny after reports suggested that it had made employee health benefits conditional – they needed to share sensitive medical data with a third-party, AI-powered platform.

Internal documents reviewed by Business Insider indicated that employees in the United States needed to consent to allow the Nayya tool — an external AI platform suggesting personalised benefits packages — to access their medical claims data in order to enroll in health coverage through Alphabet (Google’s parent company). The initial policy language reportedly stated that any staff member who declined to use Nayya would be ineligible for health benefits altogether.

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