On December 9, 2025, Google announced a new partnership with the U.S. Department of War, bringing Gemini For Government to power GenAI.mil, enterprise AI for all 3 million U.S. Department of War personnel.  

The elected Executive Board of the Alphabet Workers Union issued the following statement in response:

“The Alphabet Workers Union is deeply troubled by the recently announced partnership between Google and the U.S. Department of War. For decades, Google employees were united around a common mission and shared principles. Under the larger banner of ‘don’t be evil’, we worked together toward the goal of organizing the world’s information and making it universally accessible to all.

Googlers once had a thoughtful set of AI principles published in 2018, a North Star that guided us as we entered this new technological frontier. CEO Sundar Pichai stated that AI should ‘be socially beneficial’ and that Google would work ‘to limit potentially harmful or abusive applications.’ He even added that ‘we will not design or deploy AI’ in application of ‘weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people.’

These principles have now been abandoned as Google enters new terrain, on which workers have no way of knowing which military applications our work will be used for. This is deeply personal for many in our diverse, global workforce, and for those of us who care about the impact our work has on the world. The Alphabet Workers Union continues to share a long-held sentiment by Googlers across the company: Google should not be in the business of war.”

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