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The issues between Anthropic and the Department of War have had a major impact on Google and OpenAI. *** The AI industry has seen a major shift in the hiring front over the "ethics" of military use. A new battle has begun. The number of signatures for the "We Will Not Be Divided" petition, opposing the military use of AI (mass surveillance, inhumane autonomous weapons), is rapidly increasing within Google and OpenAI. (As of February 28: 578 Google members + 93 OpenAI members = over 671 total) notdivided.org What is noteworthy is the "quality of the signatories" rather than the number of signatories. ■ Signatories at the "core of intelligence" • Google • Tom Schaul: World authority on reinforcement learning. Lead author of the DQN improvement. • Rif A. Saurous: Top-level research position supporting Gemini's scaling infrastructure. • OpenAI • Karl Cobbe: Contributor to the "thought process reward" component of the latest inference model (o1). Leo Gao: An expert on "interpretability" who uncovers AI's black box. This isn't the idealism of a young person. It's existential resistance from the core team designing AI's "brain." ■ Meanwhile, xAI has zero signatures. The contrast is brutally clear. xAI promotes "zero bureaucracy" and "wartime speed," and is attracting talent who see military use as "lawful use." Fed up with Google/OpenAI's "frequent safety meetings," highly skilled individuals are shedding their ethical brakes and focusing on "fastest implementation." ■ 2026: The talent market will become "tripolar." This ethical conflict is directly contributing to a "mass migration of AI talent." 1. [Anthropic: A Bastion of Ethics] Rejecting government pressure, even at the risk of being designated a "supply chain risk." "Safety-conscious individuals" like the Google/OpenAI signature members are gathering in search of conscience. 2. [The Nation's Spear: xAI / National Defense AI] The accelerationist camp, believing that "technology is neutral and winning is justice," has gathered. Fueled by military funding, they are using overwhelming computing resources to advance intelligence. 3. [The Giant Caught in the Middle: Google / OpenAI] They are drifting between the pressures of national security and employee resistance. As top executives seek "ideological alignment," they risk hollowing out their organizations. Google's AI leader, Demis Hassabis, is a key figure in the company's management (promotion side), which has shifted the company's stance to one that accepts "military cooperation." I believe the sense of being caught between the two is particularly painful. ■ Conclusion AI is no longer simply a technology race. The clash of "national ideology × corporate culture × ethics" has become the filter that determines which companies are assigned which talent. We are now at a critical juncture in whether AI will become a "tool of peace" or a "weapon of victory."

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