By Siladitya Ray
Publication Date: 2026-02-27 11:50:00
Topline
Hundreds of current staffers at Google and OpenAI signed an open letter expressing support for Anthropic’s refusal to comply with the Pentagon’s demand for unrestricted access to its AI tools and urging their own companies’ leaders to also stick to similar red lines and refuse the Defense Department’s demands.
Staffers at Google and OpenAI signed a petition expressing support for Anthropic in its clash with the Pentagon.
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Key Facts
As of Friday morning, the petition titled “We Will Not Be Divided” has been publicly signed by 266 Google and 65 OpenAI staffers, all of whom are current employees.
Citing an Axios report, the letter accuses the Defense Department of going after Anthropic for “sticking to their red lines to not allow their models to be used for domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing people without human oversight.”
The letter then notes that the Pentagon is currently negotiating with Google and OpenAI “to try to…
