Employee organisations and unions across America representing 700,000 employees from Amazon, Google, Microsoft demand: Our companies must reject … | – The Times of India

A number of letters said to be representing employees of technology companies including Amazon, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI are circulating. These letters call upon leaders of these and some other technology companies for clearer limits on how their companies work with the US army. One of the earliest such letters is from the group ‘No Tech For Apartheid’. It is the same group that is linked with public protests at Google and Microsoft offices a number of times in the past few years. In the letter sent in the wake of Anthropic’s tensions with the Department of Defense, the open letter asks these companies to reject Pentagon’s demands. “We are speaking out today because the Pentagon is demanding that Anthropic abandon two major safety guardrails for Claude, which is the only frontier AI model currently deployed in classified Department of War operations,” says the letter that calls Pentagon’s demands…