US EditionSome OpenAI Staff Are Fuming About Its Pentagon Deal
Sam Altman acknowledged staff concerns about ethics and transparency while emphasizing OpenAI's potential influence and a $200 million Pentagon contract for AI deployment.
- On Tuesday, Sam Altman convened an internal all‑hands four days after OpenAI announced its Pentagon deal, addressing employee backlash just hours before U.S. and Israel struck Iran.
- The Pentagon's arrangement allows deploying OpenAI's models on classified networks and followed Anthropic's contract talks collapse over autonomous weapons and surveillance limits.
- Admitting the rollout 'looked opportunistic and sloppy,' OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company 'shouldn't have rushed' it and told staff, 'So maybe you think the Iran strike was good and the Venezuela invasion was bad,' adding 'You don't get to weigh in on that.'
- Employees pressed Sam Altman on whether OpenAI would ban its models from mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, but he said OpenAI doesn't "get to make operational decisions" for the Department of Defense.
- OpenAI is pursuing potential NATO deployments and contracts, with Altman saying it was exploring a contract for NATO's unclassified networks and has up to two Pentagon projects worth $200 million.
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