{"id":524028,"date":"2026-03-09T06:36:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/524028\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T06:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:36:36","slug":"the-fallout-over-openais-pentagon-deal-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/524028\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fallout Over OpenAI&#8217;s Pentagon Deal Is Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many other OpenAI staffers have also publicly criticized <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/openai-ai-deal-sam-altman-pentagon-defense-department-anthropic-2026-2\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the company&#8217;s Pentagon deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;i personally don&#8217;t think this deal was worth it,&#8221; Aidan McLaughlin, a research scientist at OpenAI, wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Another employee told CNN that many of them &#8220;really respect&#8221; Anthropic for refusing the Pentagon&#8217;s deal.<\/p>\n<p>Clive Chan, a technical staffer, wrote in an X post that he believed OpenAI&#8217;s contract barred the use of its models for mass weapons or mass domestic surveillance. Chan wrote that he&#8217;s advocating for the company to share more information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we later learn this is not the case, then I will advocate internally to terminate the contract,&#8221; Chan wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Even before the deal, nearly 900 former and current OpenAI and Google staffers <a target=\"_self\" class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/openai-google-employee-petition-military-ai-use-anthropic-pentagon-defense-2026-2\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">signed a joint petition<\/a> supporting Anthropic, one of their primary competitors, and opposing the use of their companies&#8217; technology for weapons that can kill without human oversight and mass surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Pentagon is negotiating with Google and OpenAI to try to get them to agree to what Anthropic has refused,&#8221; the petition said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many other OpenAI staffers have also publicly criticized the company&#8217;s Pentagon deal. &#8220;i personally don&#8217;t think this deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-524028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}