{"id":12263,"date":"2026-02-28T17:46:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=12263"},"modified":"2026-02-28T17:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:46:35","slug":"openais-sam-altman-publicizes-pentagon-cope-with-technical-safeguards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=12263","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman publicizes Pentagon cope with \u2018technical safeguards\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced late on Friday that his firm has reached an settlement permitting the Division of Protection to make use of its AI fashions within the division\u2019s categorized community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This follows a high-profile standoff between the division \u2014 additionally recognized underneath the Trump administration because the Division of Conflict \u2014 and OpenAI\u2019s rival Anthropic. The Pentagon <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/15\/anthropic-and-the-pentagon-are-reportedly-arguing-over-claude-usage\/\">pushed AI corporations, together with Anthropic, to permit their fashions be used \u201call lawful functions,\u201d<\/a> whereas Anthropic sought to attract a pink line round mass home surveillance and absolutely autonomous weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/news\/statement-department-of-war\">a prolonged assertion launched Thursday<\/a>, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei mentioned the corporate \u201cby no means raised objections to specific navy operations nor tried to restrict use of our know-how in an <em>advert hoc<\/em> method,\u201d however he argued that \u201cin a slim set of circumstances, we imagine AI can undermine, reasonably than defend, democratic values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Greater than 60 OpenAI workers and 300 Google workers <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/27\/employees-at-google-and-openai-support-anthropics-pentagon-stand-in-open-letter\/\">signed an open letter this week<\/a> asking their employers to help Anthropic\u2019s place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Anthropic and the Pentagon failed to achieve an settlement, President Donald Trump criticized the \u201cLeftwing nut jobs at Anthropic\u201d in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/27\/pentagon-moves-to-designate-anthropic-as-a-supply-chain-risk\/\">a social media put up<\/a> that additionally directed federal companies to cease utilizing the corporate\u2019s merchandise after a six-month part out interval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sama\/status\/2027578580159631610\">a separate put up<\/a>, Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth claimed Anthropic was attempting to \u201cseize veto energy over the operational choices of the US navy.\u201d Hegseth additionally mentioned he&#8217;s designating Anthropic as a supply-chain danger: \u201cEfficient instantly, no contractor, provider, or associate that does enterprise with the US navy might conduct any business exercise with Anthropic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/news\/statement-comments-secretary-war\">Anthropic mentioned<\/a> it had \u201cnot but obtained direct communication from the Division of Conflict or the White Home on the standing of our negotiations,\u201d however insisted it could \u201cproblem any provide chain danger designation in court docket.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-techcrunch-inline-cta\">\n<div class=\"inline-cta__wrapper\">\n<p>Techcrunch occasion<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-cta__content\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__location\">Boston, MA<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__separator\">|<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__date\">June 9, 2026<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Surprisingly, Altman <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sama\/status\/2027578580159631610\">claimed in a put up on X<\/a> that OpenAI\u2019s new protection contract contains protections addressing the identical points that turned a flashpoint for Anthropic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTwo of our most vital security ideas are prohibitions on home mass surveillance and human duty for using power, together with for autonomous weapon techniques,\u201d Altman mentioned. \u201cThe DoW agrees with these ideas, displays them in regulation and coverage, and we put them into our settlement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Altman mentioned OpenAI \u201cwill construct technical safeguards to make sure our fashions behave as they need to, which the DoW additionally wished,\u201d and it&#8217;ll deploy engineers with the Pentagon \u201cto assist with our fashions and to make sure their security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe&#8217;re asking the DoW to supply these identical phrases to all AI corporations, which in our opinion we predict everybody ought to be prepared to just accept,\u201d Altman added. \u201cWe&#8217;ve expressed our robust want to see issues de-escalate away from authorized and governmental actions and in direction of affordable agreements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sharongoldman\/status\/2027515992021340599\">Fortune\u2019s Sharon Goldman stories<\/a> that Altman instructed OpenAI workers at an all-hands assembly that the federal government will enable the corporate to construct its personal \u201csecurity stack\u201d to stop misuse, and that \u201cif the mannequin refuses to do a process, then the federal government wouldn&#8217;t power OpenAI to make it do this process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Altman\u2019s put up got here shortly earlier than information broke that the U.S. and Israeli governments <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/02\/28\/world\/iran-strikes-trump\">have begun bombing Iran<\/a>, with Trump calling for the overthrow of the Iranian authorities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced late on Friday that his firm has reached an settlement permitting the Division of Protection to make use of its AI fashions within the division\u2019s categorized community. This follows a high-profile standoff between the division \u2014 additionally recognized underneath the Trump administration because the Division of Conflict \u2014 and OpenAI\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[3211,1329,929,181,1189,5299,3210,3027],"class_list":["post-12263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news","tag-altman","tag-announces","tag-deal","tag-openais","tag-pentagon","tag-safeguards","tag-sam","tag-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12264,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12263\/revisions\/12264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. 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