Pentagon Strikes Deals with 8 Big Tech Companies After Shunning Anthropic
Google says the contract lets its AI support lawful military uses, while nearly 1,000 employees have signed protests over surveillance and weapons concerns.
- Google signed a contract to provide Gemini AI models to the Pentagon for "any lawful purpose," sparking internal opposition from employees concerned about military applications and potential surveillance risks.
- Following the 2018 Project Maven controversy, Google leadership is now "proudly" continuing military work while updating internal principles to remove previous AI weapons restrictions from its public website.
- Legal experts argue the agreement is "strictly weaker" than competitor contracts, lacking enforceable safeguards against mass surveillance or autonomous weapons systems that could autonomously identify targets without human oversight.
- About 1,000 Google employees signed an open letter protesting the deal, while management reportedly decommissioned internal communication channels to prevent further organizing against military partnerships.
- Researchers warn that normalizing such deals risks setting a dangerous precedent where Google and other tech companies hand over powerful general-purpose AI tools to the Pentagon with few meaningful constraints.
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Pentagon strikes deals with 8 Big Tech companies after shunning Anthropic
By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York (CNN) — The Department of Defense announced Friday an agreement with eight major technology companies to use their artificial intelligence tools in its classified networks. Not included: Anthropic, which the Trump administration has blacklisted over Anthropic’s insistence that the Pentagon include certain safety guardrails for the government’s use of AI in warfare. But the White House reopened discussions with An…
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The War Department Announces Agreements With Leading AI Companies To Deploy Capabilities On Classified Networks - Armed Forces Press
The War Department has entered into agreements with seven of the world’s leading frontier artificial intelligence companies, SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services to deploy their advanced AI capabilities on the Department’s classified networks for lawful operational use. These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force and will str…
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