US EditionOpenAI Robotics head resigns after deal with Pentagon
Caitlin Kalinowski resigned citing governance concerns over rushed Pentagon AI deal lacking clear guardrails on surveillance and lethal autonomy, sparking internal and public backlash.
- On Saturday, March 7, 2026, Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of robotics, announced her resignation after OpenAI struck a deal last week to deploy AI models on Pentagon classified networks.
- Kalinkowski framed her departure as a governance concern, saying the OpenAI announcement was rushed without guardrails and cited worries about domestic surveillance and lethal autonomy.
- Consumer reaction included a 295% surge in ChatGPT uninstalls, while Caitlin Kalinowski spent 16 months building OpenAI's physical AI programme, including a San Francisco lab with roughly 100 data collectors.
- An OpenAI spokesperson said, `We believe our agreement with the Pentagon creates a workable path for responsible national security uses of AI while making clear our red lines: no domestic surveillance and no autonomous weapons`, and Altman later acknowledged the deal was rushed and would be amended.
- Her departure leaves OpenAI without its senior hardware lead, while Anthropic's refusal led to its Pentagon supply-chain risk designation.
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In the dispute over OpenAI's collaboration with the US military, a high-ranking manager throws out at the AI developer. Caitlin Kalinowski, Head of Robotics and Hardware at OpenAI, announced her resignation on Saturday. She justified this on X with concerns about the recent mandate of the US Department of Defense. OpenAI did not take enough time before agreeing to use its AI models in the Ministry's secret cloud networks.OpenAI had announced an …
The chief robotics officer of artificial intelligence (AI) research and deployment company OpenAI announced on Saturday that she is resigning over the company's agreement with the Pentagon, the US Department of Defense, which will be able to use the company's technology for military and domestic surveillance purposes without restrictions.
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