# Google Clears Path To Feed Its AI 500 Million Chats From Dead Airline’s Workers

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/google-clears-path-to-feed-its-ai-500-million-chats-from-dead-airlines-workers/
- Published: 2026-11-11T18:01:48+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T18:22:53+00:00
- Original publisher: The Daily Caller (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://dailycaller.com/2026/11/11/google-spirit-airlines-flight-attendants-cwa-sara-nelson-sundar-pichai
- Topics: AI, Politics, Technology

## Key points

- Google’s proposed purchase includes 500 million Spirit worker chats.
- The $10 million sale still needs bankruptcy court approval.
- Unions say safeguards will exclude personal and sensitive records.

## Summary

Google could gain access to a large archive of Spirit Airlines employees’ workplace chats and other data to help train its AI models, after aviation unions agreed to protections for workers’ information. The proposed sale raises wider questions about who can use workplace data for AI training and what privacy safeguards employees should receive.

Google paid $10 million for Spirit’s asset data at an August bankruptcy auction, but a judge still needs to approve the sale. The archive could include 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, 100 million emails from 80,000 accounts and about 30 million lines of code; Google says it will not receive personal information, and the union says health and payroll records are excluded.

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