{"id":32573,"date":"2025-04-08T11:22:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T03:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=32573"},"modified":"2025-04-08T11:22:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T03:22:27","slug":"%e6%b6%88%e6%81%af%e7%a7%b0%e8%b0%b7%e6%ad%8c%e4%bb%98%e9%92%b1%e8%ae%a9%e9%83%a8%e5%88%86-ai-%e5%91%98%e5%b7%a5%e8%b5%8b%e9%97%b2%e4%b8%80%e5%b9%b4%ef%bc%8c%e4%bb%a5%e9%98%b2%e5%85%b6%e6%8a%95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/32573.html","title":{"rendered":"Google pays some AI employees to stay idle for a year in case they defect to competitors, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 8, 2012 - In<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e4%ba%ba%e5%b7%a5%e6%99%ba%e8%83%bd\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [artificial intelligence]]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI<\/a>field,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%b0%b7%e6%ad%8c\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [Google]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Google<\/a>, OpenAI, and other tech giants are becoming more competitive with each other, and retaining top AI talent has become a major challenge. According to Business Insider, Google's AI division <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/deepmind\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >DeepMind<\/a>In order to prevent employees from going to competitors, the company has adopted a \"radical\" approach.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e7%ab%9e%e4%b8%9a%e7%a6%81%e6%ad%a2%e5%8d%8f%e8%ae%ae\" title=\"[Sees articles with labels of [competition ban agreements]\" target=\"_blank\" >non-competition agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32574\" title=\"0b7c0fbcj00sudqnu004fd000os00ttp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0b7c0fbcj00sudqnu004fd000os00ttp.jpg\" alt=\"0b7c0fbcj00sudqnu004fd000os00ttp\" width=\"892\" height=\"1073\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Such agreements provide that some UK-based employees are not allowed to work for a competitor for one year after leaving. During this period<strong>DeepMind pays employees even though they don't need to work<\/strong>This amounts to a long period of paid vacation. However, this practice has left some researchers feeling marginalized because they are not able to participate in the rapid development of the AI industry.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has banned most non-compete agreements in the last year, the<strong>But the rule does not apply to DeepMind's headquarters in London.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1AI notes that last month, Microsoft's vice president of artificial intelligence posted on the X platform that DeepMind employees were \"desperate\" for help because they were having trouble getting out of non-compete clauses.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Google said it uses non-compete agreements \"selectively\".<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 8, news that in the area of artificial intelligence, the growing competition between Google, OpenAI and other technology giants has made it a challenge to retain top artificial intelligence. According to Business Insider, the artificial intelligence department under Google's umbrella, DeepMind, has adopted a \u201cradical\u201d competition ban agreement to prevent the movement of workers to competitors. This agreement provides that some British employees may not work for their competitors for one year after separation from service. During this period, while employees are not required to work, DeepMind still pays them, which is equivalent to a long period of paid leave. However, this practice has marginalized some researchers who are unable to participate in the rapid development of the AI industry<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[593,204,6209,281],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-32573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-deepmind","tag-204","tag-6209","tag-281"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32573"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=32573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}