OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman reportedly told employees that they can’t weigh in on how the US military wants to use the startup’s AI model.
At an all-hands meeting on Tuesday, Altman told OpenAI staffers that while the Defense Department will listen to advice on the use of AI, the agency explicitly told the firm that it has no say on military operations, Bloomberg reports.
According to a person close to the matter, Altman said, “You do not get to make operational decisions.”
Last week, OpenAI swooped in to get the Department of War (DoW) contract out of the hands of rival Anthropic after CEO Dario Amodei stood his ground against the use of AI in domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.
Amodei’s refusal led President Trump to order all federal agencies to immediately cease using Anthropic’s Claude AI model. The DoW also threatened to invoke the Defense Production Act and label Anthropic as a supply-chain risk.
At the all-hands meeting, Altman also said he’s working on getting DoW to abandon its supply-chain risk designation for Anthropic. Last week, the OpenAI CEO said Anthropic should not face a supply-chain risk designation and noted that it has expressed the sentiment to the DoW.
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