The ethical argument in the employee letter is not about military AI in the abstract — it is about a specific technical condition. Classified, air-gapped networks are designed to prevent external access, which means Google cannot run the monitoring, auditing, or incident response processes that normally constitute its AI oversight. The employees who organized the letter anonymously out of fear of retaliation are not disputing that the Pentagon will use the AI carefully — they are disputing that Google will have any way of knowing whether it did. That is…