The Vibes Are Changing: AI Labs and Military Guardrails

Jeff Dean, DeepMind’s chief scientist, is one of the first prominent tech leaders to speak out against escalating ICE violence.

The Pentagon pushed AI labs to remove military guardrails for “all lawful purposes”. OpenAI, Google, and xAI agreed; Anthropic refused to allow autonomous weapons or mass surveillance, prompting threats to label Anthropic a “supply chain risk” that could force gov contractors to not use their models.

Sources: tweet