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Pentagon to Deploy Gemini AI, Google Staff Protest Classified Use

4/28/2026

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Undersecretary Emil Michael announced the Pentagon will first deploy Gemini AI in unclassified settings.
The plan includes later expansion to classified and top-secret missions.
About 600 Google employees handed CEO Sundar Pichai a letter urging refusal of any classified U.S. defense AI work.
Signatories warned that using Gemini on air-gapped classified networks would limit oversight, while critics say “all lawful uses” could include autonomous weapons.

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Undersecretary Emil Michael announced the Pentagon will first deploy Gemini AI in unclassified settings.
The plan includes later expansion to classified and top-secret missions.
About 600 Google employees handed CEO Sundar Pichai a letter urging refusal of any classified U.S. defense AI work.
Signatories warned that using Gemini on air-gapped classified networks would limit oversight, while critics say “all lawful uses” could include autonomous weapons.