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If you looked at any of the pictures or watch the demo video you will see that the material is very stiff and thick. I wouldn't saw it is suitable for gloves.

But the general consensus is always not to wear gloves at all. The risk of it getting caught in the machine amplifies the risk much greater than just cutting yourself or losing a finger.

You don't use gloves around spinning motors because it will suck the glove up. Even if the gloves survive tearing, your fingers don't survive mushing.

You might be interested in this. https://www.sawstop.com/

I am in the 9 finger club and I do not believe that gloves would help. Or as the doctor said when I was 16: "You can no longer sew on mush." and dropped my "what was previous known as my finger" into the garbadge bin. I was wearing gloves. Big, hard ones.

The gloves you want don't exist yet but there is a safe table saw https://www.sawstop.com/why-sawstop/the-technology/

Go look up "degloving" to see why gloves are bad idea around spinning tools.

Might want to mention that's NSFL.

Would chainmail armour be practical here ?