Employees across OpenAI and Google support Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Pentagon
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TL;DR
- Anthropic filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defense after being designated a supply chain risk.
- The designation prevents Anthropic from engaging in military contracts and impacts companies using their products for the Pentagon.
- Employees from OpenAI and Google, including Google's chief scientist, filed an amicus brief supporting Anthropic.
- The brief addresses concerns about domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons.
- The group emphasizes the risks of AI transforming fragmented data into a unified surveillance apparatus.
- They also highlight the unreliability of autonomous weapons in unclear conditions and the need for human oversight.