Google employees ask Sundar Pichai to say no to classified military AI use

More than 600 Google employees have signed a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai demanding that Google stop the Pentagon from using its AI models for classified purposes, reports the The Washington Post. Its organizers say many of the signatories work at Google’s DeepMind AI lab and include more than 20 directors, directors and vice presidents.

According to the Jobthe letter states that “The only way to ensure that Google is not associated with such damages is to reject any classified workloads. Otherwise, such uses could take place without our knowledge or authority to stop them.” Anthropic is currently engaged in a legal battle with the Pentagon over being designated a “supply chain risk”, after refusing to loosen guardrails on how the US military can use its AI models, with the support of the entire tech industry, including Google employees.