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News India Live, Digital Desk: An epic battle has erupted among tech giants around the world over the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its ethical use. Amazon, Google, Microsoft And OpenAI close to 7,00,000 employees And the organizations have come together and opened a front against their companies. Their demand is that companies should reject the pressure from the US Defense Department (Pentagon) to remove the ‘safety guardrails’ of AI.
Root of controversy: What is Pentagon’s ‘ultimatum’?
This whole controversy started when the Pentagon banned AI startup Anthropic Ordered to remove two key security rules from its cloud model ‘Cloud’. The Pentagon wants AI to be used for two purposes:
Mass Domestic Surveillance: Mass surveillance of citizens.
Autonomous Weapons: Such deadly weapons which can attack by taking decisions on their own without any human intervention.
Anthropic rejected these demands saying that it was against democratic values. After this, the Pentagon has threatened to blacklist Anthropic by declaring it a ‘supply chain risk’.
Employees’ ‘We Will Not Be Divided’ campaign
Given Anthropic’s stand, there is anger among employees of other big tech companies too.
Wave of Solidarity: Employees of Google and Microsoft have issued an open letter named “We Will Not Be Divided”.
Big warning: The letter says that if tech companies bow to the Pentagon, the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth They will have such power that they will be able to carry out drone attacks and mass surveillance without any human monitoring.
Demand: Employees want their leaders (CEOs) to make it clear that they will not allow their technology to be used for war and killing.
Why the pressure on Google and OpenAI?
Amidst pressure from the Pentagon, everyone’s eyes are on the strategies of other companies:
OpenAI’s stance: According to reports, OpenAI is making changes to its Pentagon contract to ensure that its AI is not used for mass surveillance.
Google Gemini: Google is also in talks to give its AI model ‘Gemini’ for classified military use, due to which murmurs of opposition like the old ‘Project Maven’ have started again within the company.
Panic in the tech world: what will happen next?
This rebellion of tech workers has put the companies in trouble. On one side there are government contracts worth billions of dollars, and on the other side there is the world’s best talent, who is strongly against making AI a ‘death machine’.
Experts say: “This is the biggest moral battle of 2026. It will decide whether AI will serve humanity or become an instrument of destruction.”