Google DeepMind staff say a non-disparagement clause keeps them from warning the public about AI (Washington Post)
Partly confirmed
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- Claim
Partly confirmed
- Our reporting
- Medium confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 6 November 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra187 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5126 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon217 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7156 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 126 days before it.
Key facts
- Anonymous staffer: workers are often the only source of information on harms
- Another: even if unenforceable, the clause’s purpose ‘is to intimidate’
- No Google statement in Futurism’s follow-up (Nov 5)
What happened
Washington Post original not read by us; written from Futurism’s account of it.
Sources
1 source from 1 site. Numbers match the chips in the text.
1 source: 1 press
Press
- Futurism: Google staffers say they’re being silencedfuturism.com, press
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