The workforce protest marks a new effort by workers in Silicon Valley to try to curtail the use of AI and the risks associated with such tools in classified national security settings.

The Department of Defense is broadening its deployment of Alphabet Inc.'s GOOG GOOGL Google Gemini artificial intelligence model for classified national security projects as it diversifies military AI partnerships following Anthropic's exclusion from defense contracts.

In an open letter, Google workers say doing a deal with the Department of Defense would hurt the tech giant's reputation.

Hundreds of AI researchers at Alphabet Inc.’s Google have signed onto a letter urging Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai to refuse to make the company’s artificial intelligence systems available for classified workloads for US defense missions,