Organizers of a public letter titled “We Will Not Be Divided” invited current and former Google and OpenAI employees to oppose two proposed uses of artificial intelligence: domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight. The letter presents the campaign as an effort to find common ground among workers who may hold differing political views.
According to the campaign website, the organizers are private citizens concerned about possible misuse of AI against people in the United States. They say they are not affiliated with a political party, advocacy organization, AI company or paid sponsor. The site frames the letter around demands attributed to the Department of War, but the supplied evidence does not include a response from the department or either company.
Participation is restricted to current and former employees of Google and OpenAI. Signers can attach their names publicly or appear anonymously. The organizers say every submission is checked before publication. Access to a company email account can be used for verification, while an alternative process allows an organizer to review other proof of employment.
The campaign describes additional privacy measures for anonymous participants. It says names and email addresses submitted through that route are permanently deleted within 24 hours after verification, leaving only an anonymous listing and confirmed company relationship. One organizer can view the identifying information during that period. For public signers, names and affiliations are retained for display, while verification email addresses are not published or shared.
The organizers also acknowledge limits in their process. They reported that an ineligible person exploited a verification bug to post a false signature, which they said was removed and addressed within ten minutes. They also identified two duplicate submissions missed by automatic checks. Because identifying data for anonymous signers is deleted, the site says duplicates after the 24-hour window cannot be ruled out, though submissions receive manual review.
A person who first signs anonymously and later wants a named listing is instructed to submit alternative verification and disclose the earlier entry, allowing organizers to update it without counting it twice.
Technical details published by the campaign describe a small open-source Flask application hosted on Fly.io. Its SQLite database sits on an encrypted persistent volume, verification emails are delivered through Resend, and Google Forms provides one confirmation option. Cloudflare handles DNS and encrypted web connections. The organizers say the site contains no analytics or tracking scripts.
The letter is therefore both a workplace appeal and a test of cross-company organizing around AI safeguards. Its published procedures aim to balance credible employee verification with an anonymous option, while its own disclosure of mistakes makes clear that the displayed list depends partly on fallible manual review.
