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AI Giants Work Hand-in-Hand With the Pentagon, Contracts Reveal

September 8, 2026
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What happened

Trusting companies to self-report the risks of their own products constitutes both a conflict of interest and a “subversion of democratic processes when AI labs are allowed to take over the arbitration of risk determinations with life-or-death consequences,” says AI Now’s Chief AI Scientist Heidy Khlaaf.

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AI Now Institute
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AI Giants Work Hand-in-Hand With the Pentagon, Contracts Reveal
2026-09-08T14:16:16