OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network

Not a surprise here, that letter was a trap for OpenAI employees who filled it out with their names on it. [0]

The ones that did might as well leave. But there was no open letter when the first military contract was signed. [1] Now there is one?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176170

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/17/openai-mi...

I have just canceled all services and deleted my account with OpenAI. They can get money from the current US regime but I will not contribute to their violations of the constitution.

Sam Altman is this. Sam Altman needs to be stopped.

Screw OpenAI. Never opening that app again or using one of their models.

How did they agree to the terms that were initially put forward by Anthropic but with OpenAI? Surely there’s a catch here. Or is it just Sam negotiation skill?

In my experience ChatGPT is the most sanctimonious of the leading models.

When I need advice for my clandestine operations I always reach for Grok.

Perhaps Trump's DOD objects specifically to Anthropic models themselves declining to do immoral and illegal things, and not something just stipulated in an ignorable contract. That would give room for Sam to throw some public CYA into a contract, while neutering model safety to their requirements.

They're pretending like they didn't enter into this agreement last January and are completely entrenched in intelligence programs already. They are trying to make it look like they are stepping up in a time of need (time of need for the DoD), in reality they sold their soul to intelligence and the military a year ago.

I posted about this here after Sam made his tweet:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189756

Source: https://defensescoop.com/2025/01/16/openais-gpt-4o-gets-gree...

Snakes- as predicted

Sam must not be aware of what happened to any business or foreign nation/leader considered outwardly friendly to the first Trump administration when the democrats regained control in 2020.

Opportunism without principles at its finest.

If the "safety stack" (guardrails) bit is true, it's the exact opposite of their beef with Anthropic... which is not surprising given who's running the US right now.

I always assumed those folks need a way to look strong with their base for a media moment over equitable application of the policies or law.

We really need a plan for the scenario in which the US loses the trade war and decides to go homicidal AI on the whole world. Like, help them recover or something.

Department of War just killed OpenAI's brand

Musk 100% right about this guy

So basically Greg Brockman of OpenAI, currently the largest MAGA PAC donor, used his bribe to make the government destroy his main competition? I’m absolutely cancelling ChatGPT and will tell everyone I know to cancel as well.

I also absolutely do not trust sleezy Sam Altman when he claims he has the same exact redlines as Anthropic:

> AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.

If Hegseth and Trump attack Anthropic and sign a deal with OpenAI under the same restrictions, it means this is them corrupting free markets by picking which companies win. Maybe it’s at the behest of David Sacks, the corrupt AI czar who complained about lawfare throughout the Biden administration but now cheers on far worse lawfare.

So it’s either a government looking to surveil citizens illegally or a government that is deeply corrupt and is using its power to enrich some people above others.

Honestly not even surprised. What else could you expect from a zionist?

I wonder if this will cause this to save open ai from the bubble! i am sure i am wrong;-)

This will backfire on Sam someday, he’s just a pawn in the agenda of the Trump admin.

SA is a real weasel lol. Acted like he stood behind Anthropic's principles just to announce the deal with DoW a few hours later.

There's a lot of people in this thread that assume that Sam Altman is the one who is being dishonest here, and I kind of understand, but the other two parties who could just as easily be lying are Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump, and of the three of them if you think sama is the _most_ likely to lie I feel like you have not been paying attention.

So nice of him! I am sure he believes they should offer these terms to all competitors.

HN: if you continue to subscribe to OpenAI, if you use it at your startup, you’re no better than the tech bros you often criticize. This is not surprising but beyond shady.

Hey dang I know I’m not allowed to say this due to community guidelines, but Sam Altman is a lying sack of shit.

"Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.

In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.

AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.

We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.

We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.

We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place."

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Sam is just about the least trustworthy person in AI, I don't trust his words as face value and I consider these weasel words:

> prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility *for the use of force*

> We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should

A bold statement. It would appear they've definitively solved prompt injection and all the other ills that LLMs have been susceptible to. And forgot to tell the world about it.

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perhaps us mere mortals should petition our lawmakers to ban mass surveillance.

Raise your hand if you actually read it or if you read the title and replied? I see a lot of comments that sure seem like they didn’t read it.

> Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.

IF this is true, it SHOULD be verifiable. So, we wait? I mean, I am a dummy, but that language doesn’t seem too washy too me? Either it’s a bold face lie and OpenAI burns because of it or it’s true and the Trump admin is going after the “left” AI company. Or whatever. My point is, someone smarter than me/us is going to fact check Sam’s claim.