More than 600 Google employees sent a letter to CEO Sundar Pichai asking him to block the company's AI products from being used in classified Pentagon operations. The letter warned of "irreparable damage" to Google's reputation. Leadership had already signed the deal.

In 2018, more than 4,000 Google employees sent a letter opposing the Project Maven, which was an agreement between the government and Google involving using Google’s AI in analysing drone videos.

This time, however, it did not work, and Google decided to go ahead and develop AI systems for classified government projects, despite the........

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