Google Workers Urge CEO to Reject Classified Artificial Intelligence Work with the Pentagon
Google Workers Urge CEO to Reject Classified Artificial Intelligence Work with the Pentagon
Publish Date: 2026-04-28 10:24:00
Source Domain: www.democracynow.org
- More than 600 Google employees have signed a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai urging him to reject Pentagon contracts involving Google’s AI tools due to concerns about lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
- The workers argue that the only way to prevent Google from being associated with such harmful technologies is to deny classified workloads.
- Google is said to be pursuing a Pentagon deal similar to one struck by OpenAI, despite the Defense Department’s public dispute with another AI firm, Anthropic.
- Demonstrators gathered outside an Oakland courthouse as jury selection concluded in the lawsuit between Elon Musk and OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman.
