Source: New York Post
OpenAI’s Sam Altman told staffers that he wants to “help de-escalate” the spat between the Pentagon and its chief AI rival Anthropic – which faces being blacklisted after saying it won’t remove military safeguards ahead of a key Friday deadline. Altman told staffers in a memo late Thursday that OpenAI shares the same safety “red lines” as Anthropic – namely, that its AI tools should not be used for mass surveillance of Americans or to power weapons capable of firing without human oversight. OpenAI is in talks with the Pentagon on a potential deal to allow use of its AI models in classified military settings, according to Altman – who wrote that the discussions were important to reach a consensus and avoid setting a dangerous industrywide precedent.
