OpenAI to amend Pentagon deal

Deal looked ‘sloppy’, says CEO Altman

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OPENAI CHIEF EXECUTIVE Officer (CEO) Sam Altman said that the company’s rush to forge a deal with the Defence Department — following a clash between the Pentagon and rival Anthropic — looked “opportunistic and sloppy.”

In a post on the X social media service, Altman said his company was working with the department to “make some additions in our agreement to make our principles very clear.”

That includes ensuring that AI isn’t used for domestic surveillance of Americans and that intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency can’t rely on Open AI services.

The remarks follow an announcement late Friday that Altman had reached an agreement to let the Pentagon deploy Open AI’s artificial intelligence (AI) models in its classified network.