The artificial intelligence industry rarely shows unity across competing companies. Yet that is exactly what happened on Monday when dozens of researchers from rival firms rallied behind one company’s legal battle with the U.S. government.
Wired was the first to report the development.
Nearly 40 employees from OpenAI and Google filed an amicus brief supporting Anthropic’s lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).
The filing came only hours after Anthropic launched its legal challenge.
ninadpathak on
This rare unity shows the AI field’s growing concern about unchecked military AI use. These researchers prioritize ethics over competition, which could set a precedent for safer development.
Sixgis on
Correct me if I’m wrong but once Anthropic denied to take down the guardrails for the Pentagon to use its AI for drones and mass surveillance, didn’t OpenAI jump in and agree to the same terms? Fuck, I mean Sam started OpenAI as an open source, for the people, non profit AI, then raised billions of dollars, closed the source, made it for profit, scrapped the entire Internet without permission, stole your text images and every other file ever used in it to train its model and now wants to sell it to you as a utility like water or electricity.
Skyler827 on
It doesn’t cost them much to sign their name to a legal brief, so this doesn’t actually mean much, but the argument is true in any case and the government should not be allowed to punish companies above and beyond choosing to not buy their services, especially for protected speech.
Dazzling-Jaguar-4674 on
Agreed.
The government has to put laws and regulations before having AI take part in the supply chain. Having AI take part is pretty risky, even in 2026.
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The artificial intelligence industry rarely shows unity across competing companies. Yet that is exactly what happened on Monday when dozens of researchers from rival firms rallied behind one company’s legal battle with the U.S. government.
Wired was the first to report the development.
Nearly 40 employees from OpenAI and Google filed an amicus brief supporting Anthropic’s lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).
The filing came only hours after Anthropic launched its legal challenge.
This rare unity shows the AI field’s growing concern about unchecked military AI use. These researchers prioritize ethics over competition, which could set a precedent for safer development.
Correct me if I’m wrong but once Anthropic denied to take down the guardrails for the Pentagon to use its AI for drones and mass surveillance, didn’t OpenAI jump in and agree to the same terms? Fuck, I mean Sam started OpenAI as an open source, for the people, non profit AI, then raised billions of dollars, closed the source, made it for profit, scrapped the entire Internet without permission, stole your text images and every other file ever used in it to train its model and now wants to sell it to you as a utility like water or electricity.
It doesn’t cost them much to sign their name to a legal brief, so this doesn’t actually mean much, but the argument is true in any case and the government should not be allowed to punish companies above and beyond choosing to not buy their services, especially for protected speech.
Agreed.
The government has to put laws and regulations before having AI take part in the supply chain. Having AI take part is pretty risky, even in 2026.