Also, since I was older I feel like I was able to get away with those redefinitions a lot more often…

Any AI researcher who continues to work here is morally compromised.

The Pentagon does not want Google or anyone else deciding what they can and cannot use their AI for. They’re saying we won’t break the law, and that should be enough for you - pinky swear!

And that seems to be enough for Google. Though I might request some auditing capability that is agentic to verify rather than take them at their word.

Next step: is Google FEDRAMP’d yet for this and for classified enclaves? Or do they also go through Palantir’s AI vehicle?

> The classified deal apparently doesn’t allow Google to veto how the government will use its AI models.

Seems concerning?

Could Google back out of this agreement later by arguing that they were coerced?

Not trying to suggest that Google would be opposed to doing evil, but curious about how solid this agreement would be in practice.

I've had the unfortunate experience of working at a startup that started courting some autonomous weapons companies and HOLY SHIT were they the bottom of the barrel. Levels of incompetence you wouldn't believe, just good ol' boys who wanted to play with energetics. Then the company I was working for also hemorrhaged all their top engineers because they found the work unsettling.

The takeaway is that your refusal to assist these shitheads does have an impact, they have to pay more for talent and they have a much harder time courting good talent.

The bottom line is in the past the US government has acquired weapons/tech with deals like "it will never be used for X purpose". However, as far as my research has shown, it has never accepted deal where said weapons or tech has self-policing features. For instance, a bomb that would refused to explode over US soil or something like that.

And it makes sense why they would refuse such deals, as it would be a security risk, or a system that could be exploited against them by an enemy.

Of course that does not make great headlines. And given the current administration and how news headlines are written these days, it makes sense this is the way this whole thing went down.

Remember that even the third Reich had laws!

Having your work being used by the govt in ways you disagree with feels similar to having your taxes used in ways you disagree.

When you pay taxes you have no say in the bombs acquired with that and where they are dropped. The latter though doesn't seem to provoke the same push back

What are the consequences of breach? Otherwise, Americans only use for this is to wipe their ass, and only if they can find a paper version.

And starts the lying to our faces. The public and private (from your own employees!) consensus is that it should not be used for those things at all, regardless of “human oversight.”

Reality is this ship sailed once the US/Palantir rolled out AI target selection

It's so unbelievably obvious at this point that the Pentagon, and everything like it across the globe, needs a deprecation plan. We don't need these massive states anymore for security or regularity; we can communicate around the world at the speed of light and bypass their notions of how we're supposed to relate to one another.

Enough is enough. Spin down the nukes. Bring home the ships. Send the money back.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/politics/tom-homan-fbi...

Lawful didn't stop Project MKUltra, or attacking countless countries, or overthrowing countless governments, or murdering countless people, or kidnapping people and torturing them, or...

The USA can do anything it wants, to anyone, any time.

Capital and Big Tech have always been opportunistic enablers, not principled actors. Corporate Values have always been nothing but internal propaganda. "Don't be evil", what a farce.