Your instincts are good here.  Remember that FB&#x2F;Google have deep connections to the US government three-letter agencies -- the CIA&#x27;s VC arm, for example, is an early investor in FB.  So what&#x27;s going on is that they want to do AI research and instead of recruiting directly, they recruit AI&#x2F;ML researchers to Google, FB, Palantir, etc.<p>And note, they&#x27;re not doing it to make everyone happy.  They&#x27;re doing for the reasons you might surmise.  Your instincts to be concerned are correct.