OpenAI has agreed to deploy its own artificial intelligence models within the Defense Department’s classified network after rival Anthropic saw its relationship with the Pentagon implode over surveillance and autonomous weapons concerns.
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said late Friday that he’d reached an agreement with the department that reflects the firm’s principles on prohibiting “domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems.” The startup also built safeguards to ensure its models behave as they should as part of the deployment, Altman said in a post on the social media platform X.
OpenAI declined to comment on whether the firm’s services for the department would replace work previously done by Anthropic. The Defense Department didn’t respond to requests for comment.
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