Two coalitions of workers, including employees of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, ask their companies to join Anthropic in refusing DOD's demands
Anthropic PBC got a vote of support from Silicon Valley workers for its increasingly contentious public-relations battle with the Pentagon …
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Discussion
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@alexpalcuie
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out of everything that's happened today, seeing hundreds of people from rival AI labs show up for us on twitter and the petition meant more than I can say thank you all [image]
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@katrinamanson
Katrina Manson
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“No LLM, anywhere, in its current form, should be considered for use in a fully lethal autonomous weapon system,” said retired general Jack Shanahan, former director of Project Maven, referring to models that power Anthropic's Claude and other AI tools. https://www.bloomberg.com/…
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@mattmday
Matt Day
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Anthropic, which is resisting Pentagon demands for unrestricted use of its AI services, has the support of a coalition of Big Tech employee groups. They're asking their employers - including Amazon, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI - to take the same stand: www.bloomberg.com/news/ar…
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Open letter: We Will Not Be Divided. (OpenAI and Google employees united with Anthropic)
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Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.
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@dagrtnpwrflmrfixit
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A strong sign of hope for our future, from a most unexpected source.
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@dearsarah
Sarah Szalavitz
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Silicon Valley Rallies Behind Anthropic in AI Clash With Trump — Actions by the president and the Pentagon appeared to drive a wedge between DC & the tech industry, whose leaders & workers spoke out for the start-up. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t... Hope @robbonta.bsky.social fi…
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r/AmericanTechWorkers
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This is what happens when the TECH workforce is full of H1-Bs
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r/technology
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We Will Not Be Divided
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We don't have to have unsupervised killer robots | AI companies could stand together to draw red lines on military AI — why aren't they?