{"id":19923,"date":"2026-04-28T11:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/19923\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:29:08","slug":"google-and-pentagon-reportedly-agree-deal-for-any-lawful-use-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/19923\/","title":{"rendered":"Google and Pentagon reportedly agree deal for \u2018any lawful\u2019 use of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google has signed a classified deal that allows the US Department of Defense to use its AI models for \u201cany lawful government purpose,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/google-signs-classified-ai-deal-pentagon-amid-employee-opposition\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Information reports<\/a>. The agreement was reported less than a day after Google employees demanded CEO Sundar Pichai <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/919326\/google-ai-pentagon-classified-letter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">block the Pentagon<\/a> from using its AI amid concerns that it would be used in \u201cinhumane or extremely harmful ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Citing a single anonymous source \u201cwith knowledge of the situation,\u201d The Information reports that the deal states that both parties have agreed that the search giant\u2019s AI systems shouldn\u2019t be used for domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weapons \u201cwithout appropriate human oversight and control.\u201d But the contract also says it doesn\u2019t give Google \u201cany right to control or veto lawful government operational decision-making,\u201d which would suggest the agreed restrictions are more of a pinky promise than legally binding obligations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/google-signs-classified-ai-deal-with-pentagon-information-reports-2026-04-28\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>, a Google spokesperson said the company upholds the opinion that AI should not be used for domestic mass surveillance or autonomous weaponry without appropriate human oversight. \u201cWe believe that providing API access to our commercial models, including on Google infrastructure, with industry-standard practices and terms, represents a responsible \u2060approach to supporting national security,\u201d Google told the outlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google has signed a classified deal that allows the US Department of Defense to use its AI models&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24,132,1429,66,2819,464,781],"class_list":{"0":"post-19923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-google","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-google-ai","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-policy","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}