US EditionOpenAI Robotics head resigns after deal with Pentagon
Caitlin Kalinowski resigned over ethical concerns about OpenAI’s Pentagon deal involving AI use for surveillance and lethal autonomy without sufficient oversight.
- OpenAI Robotics head Daniela Kalinowski resigned after the company agreed to deploy its AI models on the Pentagon's classified cloud networks without sufficient safeguards.
- OpenAI reiterated its "red lines" precluding use of its technology in domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons and stated it has additional safeguards, but Kalinowski said the deal lacked defined "guardrails."
- Kalinowski said her decision was about principle, not people, and that she has deep respect for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the team.
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OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal
Caitlin Kalinowski spent 16 months building OpenAI’s physical AI programme. On Saturday, she said the company moved too fast on something too important. The week that began with Anthropic being blacklisted by the Pentagon and ended with OpenAI taking its contract has now claimed OpenAI’s most senior hardware executive. Caitlin Kalinowski, who joined OpenAI in […] This story continues at The Next Web
After OpenAI has agreed with the Pentagon, the AI company loses a manager. She criticizes a lack of security guarantees for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems.
OpenAI robotics lead Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon deal
Hardware executive Caitlin Kalinowski announced today that in response to OpenAI's controversial agreement with the Department of Defense, she’s resigned from her role leading the company's robotics team.
OpenAI Robotics head resigns after deal with Pentagon
March 7 : Caitlin Kalinowski, head of robotics and consumer hardware at OpenAI, announced her resignation on Saturday, citing concerns about the company's agreement with the Department of Defense. In a social media post on X, Kalinowski wrote that OpenAI did not take enough time before agreeing to deploy its
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