{"id":207466,"date":"2026-04-28T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/google-and-the-pentagon-sign-classified-deal-to-give-the-department-of-defense-unfettered-access-to-its-ai-models\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:55:30","slug":"google-and-the-pentagon-sign-classified-deal-to-give-the-department-of-defense-unfettered-access-to-its-ai-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/google-and-the-pentagon-sign-classified-deal-to-give-the-department-of-defense-unfettered-access-to-its-ai-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Google and the Pentagon sign classified deal to give the Department of Defense unfettered access to its AI models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/google-and-the-pentagon-sign-classified-deal-to-give-the-department-of-defense-unfettered-access-to-its-ai-models-155211834.html\">Google and the Pentagon sign classified deal to give the Department of Defense unfettered access to its AI models<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/google-and-the-pentagon-sign-classified-deal-to-give-the-department-of-defense-unfettered-access-to-its-ai-models-155211834.html\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/google-and-the-pentagon-sign-classified-deal-to-give-the-department-of-defense-unfettered-access-to-its-ai-models-155211834.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-28 11:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google has signed a classified contract with the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for &#8220;any lawful government purpose.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>An anonymous Google source claims that usage for domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weapons is not permitted without appropriate human oversight.<\/li>\n<li>The contract reportedly does not grant Google any control or veto power over how the government uses the AI technology.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly 600 Google employees have written an open letter to CEO Sundar Pichai urging the company to reject these contracts due to concerns over misuse.<\/li>\n<li>The situation echoes a broader controversy involving other AI companies, like Anthropic, whose refusal to comply with government demands resulted in being blacklisted.<\/li>\n<li>Critics argue that the lack of control provided to Google over its AI&#8217;s applications by the government shows a lack of commitment to &#8220;appropriate human oversight and control.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google and the Pentagon sign classified deal to give the Department of Defense unfettered access&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/looper-static.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/engadget\/google-and-the-pentagon-sign-classified-deal-to-give-the-department-of-defense-unfettered-access-to-its-ai-models-155211834\/b4ae0140-4316-11f1-8aff-67678d2e3091.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207468,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207466\/revisions\/207468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}