In 2018, 4000 Google employees petitioned against Maven and won. Google had to step back. Jump to the “How the US Actually Built This” section in the article for the full breakdown.
that was the last time something like that worked.
since then every major AI lab has: locked employees into equity worth life-changing money, moved AI military work into separate classified subsidiaries employees can’t see, hired for mission-alignment from day one so dissent self-selects out, and normalized defense work gradually enough that no single moment feels like a line being crossed.
there’s no petition moment anymore. not because people stopped caring, because the industry learned from 2018 and quietly engineered around it.
who’s actually in a position to pump the brakes now? no one?
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In 2018, 4000 Google employees petitioned against Maven and won. Google had to step back. Jump to the “How the US Actually Built This” section in the article for the full breakdown.
that was the last time something like that worked.
since then every major AI lab has: locked employees into equity worth life-changing money, moved AI military work into separate classified subsidiaries employees can’t see, hired for mission-alignment from day one so dissent self-selects out, and normalized defense work gradually enough that no single moment feels like a line being crossed.
there’s no petition moment anymore. not because people stopped caring, because the industry learned from 2018 and quietly engineered around it.
who’s actually in a position to pump the brakes now? no one?