"Demand the actual contract when stakes are high After OpenAI announced a Pentagon deal framed as having the same ethical red lines Anthropic had insisted on, Casey Newton urged OpenAI employees to 'get a hold of the contracts that their employers are signing and really scrutinize them,' and to 'blow the whistle' if the technology ends up being used for something that 'looks pretty domestic surveillance-like.' His point was that corporate statements to employees are not substitutes for contract language — and that 'security theater' protections built into AI models cannot tell whether data fed into them was legally or illegally gathered. When an organization you work for makes public ethical commitments, the primary check is the underlying legal document, not the press release. Source: Casey Newton, Hard Fork, 'Anthropic vs. the Pentagon'"