"We Will Not Be Divided" calls on the leadership of both companies to "put aside their differences and stand together to continue to refuse the Department of War's current demands for permission to use our models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing people without human oversight."
"The open letter is the latest development in the saga between Anthropic and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who threatened to label the company a "supply chain risk" if it did not agree to withdraw certain guardrails for classified work. The Pentagon has also been in talks with Google and OpenAI about using their models for classified work."
"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told his employees on Friday that the ChatGPT maker will draw the same red lines as Anthropic, according to an internal memo. He told on the same day that he doesn't "personally think the Pentagon should be threatening DPA against" the company."
Over 450 employees from Google and OpenAI have signed an open letter titled "We Will Not Be Divided" expressing solidarity with Anthropic's stance against Pentagon demands for military applications of AI tools. The letter calls on company leadership to refuse the Department of Defense's requests to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems without human control. This action represents employee resistance to military applications of AI technology. The Pentagon has threatened to label Anthropic a "supply chain risk" if it does not comply with demands to remove certain guardrails for classified work. OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman indicated his company will maintain similar ethical boundaries as Anthropic regarding military use of AI systems.
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