OpenAI and Google employees support Anthropic in fight against US government; say: We are engineers, researchers, scientists employed at American AI labs who …

Several employees of OpenAI and Google, including Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, have filed an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its legal fight against the US government. Amicus briefs are legal filings submitted by parties that are not directly involved in a court case but that have expertise relevant to it. The brief was filed just hours after Anthropic sued the Department of Defense and other federal agencies over Pentagon’s decision to designate the company a “supply-chain risk.”Signatories of the Amicus brief include Google DeepMind researchers Zhengdong Wang, Alexander Matt Turner, and Noah Siegel, as well as OpenAI researchers Gabriel Wu, Pamela Mishkin, and Roman Novak, among others. “If allowed to proceed, this effort to punish one of the leading U.S. AI companies will undoubtedly have consequences for the United States’ industrial and scientific competitiveness in the field of artificial intelligence and beyond,” the employees wrote in the brief.