Google employees ask Sundar Pichai to say no to classified military AI use

Over 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind (Google's AI research lab), signed a letter asking CEO Sundar Pichai to prevent the Pentagon from using Google's AI models for classified purposes (secret military projects). The employees argue that the only way to ensure Google isn't associated with potential harms from such uses is to reject these classified projects entirely, since otherwise they could happen without employee knowledge or oversight.