Late last week, the Pentagon dropped its AI contractor, Anthropic, after the company refused to allow the Department of War to use its technology for autonomous weapons systems or for mass surveillance of American citizens.<\/p>\n
OpenAI jumped on the opportunity to become the Pentagon\u2019s AI contractor, announcing the deal late on Friday.<\/p>\n
The activist group QuitGPT are holding a rally<\/a> outside of OpenAI\u2019s headquarters in San Francisco from 4 to 6 p.m. today, to protest the deal. Perrin Milliken, who lives in San Francisco, says she\u2019ll be there.<\/p>\n \u201cMy biggest thing is like the government shouldn’t have that information. And we have a right to privacy and the power of that kind of data in such a few people’s hands is really scary to me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n OpenAI\u2019s CEO, Sam Altman, admitted that it looked \u201csloppy and opportunistic\u201d and announced changes to the deal on Monday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n According to Altman, OpenAI will not allow its technology to be used for mass domestic surveillance, to direct autonomous weapons systems, or for high-stakes automated decisions. But for some, like Milliken, that\u2019s not enough.<\/p>\n \u201cI think actions always speak louder than words and we kind of know where Open AI’s actions lie.\u201d<\/p>\n OpenAI\u2019s president Greg Brockman and his wife, Anna, gave $25 million to a pro-Trump Super PAC in September 2025. Altman gave $1 million to the president\u2019s inauguration fund in 2024.<\/p>\n