Pentagon signs classified AI deal that Google employees objected to with seven tech companies; Here’s the full list, as War Department says: These strategic partners sha…
The Pentagon signed agreements with seven AI companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, to deploy their technology on classified military networks. Google signed the deal despite employee objections, citing a commitment to responsible national security support.
The Pentagon has signed agreements with seven leading AI companies to run their technology on classified military networks. The companies include SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Nvidia, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services. The deals allow for 'lawful operational use' of AI, including battlefield decision support and intelligence work, on the government's highest-tier classified environments. The contracts include language prohibiting AI use for 'domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weapons without human oversight,' but the companies have no veto over deployment. Google signed the deal despite around 600 employees urging CEO Sundar Pichai to refuse classified military work. Anthropic, maker of Claude, was not included in the deal due to disagreements over AI use restrictions. The Pentagon's GenAI.mil platform has seen over 1.3 million personnel use it since December, generating tens of millions of prompts and hundreds of thousands of AI agents.
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