Google workers urge CEO to reject classified AI work with Pentagon

by Miranda Nazzaro - 04/27/26



Hundreds of employees at Google are pressing the company’s CEO to reject any deal with the Pentagon to use the company’s artificial intelligence in classified settings, warning of the same risks as Anthropic before it was banned in military work earlier this year.

The letter, signed by more than 600 employees at Google DeepMind and Cloud, comes nearly two months after Anthropic was dropped from the Department of Defense (DOD) after requesting guardrails around AI used for domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weapons.

The letter, sent Monday to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, argues Google does not have a way at this point to guarantee the company’s tools would not risk unmonitored harm.

The Full Open Letter
https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/riE1wPuvIT5M/v0

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5851425-google-employees-oppose-pentagon-ai-deal/