The biggest losers in all of this are everyday people and civilians in conflict zones: OpenAI is filling the gap left by Anthropic but almost left in the same loopholes for mass domestic surveillance

Date:
Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:35:00 +0000

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OpenAI has signed a contract with the Pentagon, days after Anthropic's $200 million contract was severed.

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now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter OpenAI has signed a new contract with the Pentagon The contract wording left room for AI to be used for mass domestic surveillance Sam Altman is being criticized for his stance on the matter Following Anthropics designation as a supply chain risk by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the loss of its $200 million Pentagon contract, OpenAI is now in the firing line for its own agreement with the Pentagon.

Despite OpenAI having a contract clause forbidding its AI models be used by the US military in 2023, several OpenAI employees have revealed its models were previously used by the Pentagon. At the time, the Pentagon had a
contract with Microsoft , who had license to use OpenAI technology, allowing the Pentagon access through Azure OpenAI which was not subject to the same policies. You may like Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguards - Claude maker expresses concerns over 'hard limits around fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance' 'Straight up lies': Anthropic CEO attacks OpenAI's US military deal The 'cancel ChatGPT' trend is growing after OpenAI's US military deal OpenAI contact with Pentagon questioned With Anthropic out of the picture over its refusal to allow the Pentagon to use its models for autonomous weapons systems and mass domestic surveillance , OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is now being questioned over the company's latest contract with the US military.

In 2024, OpenAI removed the blanket ban on the military use of its models,
and later went on to sign a contract with Anduril allowing the deployment of its models for national security purposes.

Altman has made clear his support for Anthropics position on preventing
Claude being used for nefarious purposes, but the companys new agreement with the US military left room for the exact same purposes, sources familiar with the matter told Wired .

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Commenting on the latest agreement signed between OpenAI and the US military, Noam Brown , an OpenAI researcher, stated, Over the weekend it became clear that the original language in the OpenAI/DoW agreement left legitimate questions unanswered, especially around some novel ways that AI could potentially enable legal surveillance.

Brown continued, The language is now updated to address this, but I also strongly believe that the world should not have to rely on trust in AI labs
or intelligence agencies for their safety and security.

Sarah Shoker , the former head of OpenAIs geopolitics team, said, The
biggest losers in all of this are everyday people and civilians in conflict zones. Our ability to understand the effects of military AI in war is and
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