Tech Workers Demand Amazon, Google, Microsoft Reject Pentagon AI Demands

• Tech worker groups representing 700,000 employees urge Amazon, Google, Microsoft to reject Pentagon's AI safety guardrail removal demands.
• The statement, published by No Tech For Apartheid, calls for maintaining restrictions on AI use in military operations.
• Pentagon reportedly asked Anthropic to remove bans on mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous lethal force from its AI model Claude.
• Workers fear increased surveillance, autonomous weapons, and risks to civil liberties and public safety.
• Calls for transparency in government contracts and federal regulation of AI in military and surveillance activities.