Tech Workers Urge Employers to Follow Anthropic's Pentagon Pushback
Employee coalitions at Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI want their companies to resist DOD demands alongside Anthropic.
Two coalitions of tech workers are pressuring their employers to stand with Anthropic against the Pentagon. Employees at Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI are calling on leadership to refuse Department of Defense demands — backing Anthropic's increasingly public standoff with the military.
Anthropic's clash with the DOD has turned into one of the most contentious corporate-government battles in recent tech history. Now rank-and-file engineers and staff across Big Tech are picking sides.
The worker groups want their respective companies to draw the same line Anthropic has. It's a rare show of cross-company solidarity on a defense contracting issue — and it puts major AI players in an awkward spot between lucrative government contracts and employee sentiment.
Whether any of these companies actually follow Anthropic's lead remains to be seen. The pressure, though, is mounting fast.