Leading AI companies in Silicon Valley have directed their employees to conceal any corporate logos when outside the workplace, saying that visible branding turns staff into easy targets for intelligence agents and hostile demonstrators. OpenAI specifically instructed its personnel not to wear apparel displaying the company's emblem beyond the office premises and provided training on spotting covert approaches offering money, friendship or romantic interest.
Anthropic issued a similar directive, urging its workforce to avoid displaying the firm's insignia in public settings. Both firms argue that the heightened profile of their staff makes them attractive to adversaries seeking to gather information or disrupt operations.
