CWA Joins Fight Against Killer Bots

Last week, CWA President Claude Cummings Jr. joined hundreds of tech workers in calling for companies including Microsoft and Google to stand together against abusive and deadly uses of autonomous AI platforms as the Pentagon attempts to coerce AI developer Anthropic to abandon vital safeguards. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei signaled his reluctance to use his platform for mass surveillance of Americans or to allow the removal of human oversight in fully autonomous weapons of war.

President Donald Trump responded by ordering the Department of Defense to label Anthropic as a “supply chain risk to national security,” effectively barring its use by our military or any contractors receiving or vying for federal funds.

President Cummings, in a statement, wrote, “This is not science fiction—we are actually living in a moment when this regime wants to remove any limits to artificial intelligence’s ability to erase Americans' Fourth Amendment Constitutional freedom and where robots could literally kill human beings without any direct human oversight.” He also stated that he would be reaching out directly to Microsoft management on the matter.

A recent study published by Professor of Strategy at King’s College London Kenneth Payne revealed a surprising lack of restraint when the three leading artificial intelligence platforms—GPT-5.2, Claude, and Gemini—vied with one another for military dominance. Each escalated conflict to tactical nuclear engagement and showed an understanding of psychology sufficient to lie convincingly about their motives, tactics, and goals. You can read more about Payne’s AI study here.

CWA is a trusted global ally on issues of artificial intelligence and is leading the way on establishing critical guardrails against the misuse of the technology against workers.

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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.