{"id":22199,"date":"2026-03-05T08:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/sam-altman-admits-openai-cant-control-pentagons-use-of-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:37:20","slug":"sam-altman-admits-openai-cant-control-pentagons-use-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/sam-altman-admits-openai-cant-control-pentagons-use-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman admits OpenAI can\u2019t control Pentagon\u2019s use of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CEO\u2019s claims come amid increased scrutiny of US military\u2019s use of the technology and ethics concerns from AI workers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OpenAI\u2019s CEO, Sam Altman, told employees on Tuesday that his company does not control how the Pentagon uses their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> products in military operations. Altman\u2019s claims on OpenAI\u2019s lack of input come amid increased scrutiny of how the military uses AI in war and ethics concerns from AI workers over how their technology will be deployed.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou do not get to make operational decisions,\u201d Altman told employees, according to reports by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-03-04\/altman-tells-staff-openai-has-no-say-over-pentagon-decisions\">Bloomberg<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/03\/sam-altman-tells-openai-staff-operational-decisions-up-to-government.html\">CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/04\/sam-altman-openai-pentagon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c1cf600b31adc44d3784cc12117b408da7526a5c\/229_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=02592f923ac60cdd07524b4f6a8e7f83\" title=\"Sam Altman admits OpenAI can\u2019t control Pentagon\u2019s use of AI\" \/>CEO\u2019s claims come amid increased scrutiny of US military\u2019s use of the technology and ethics concerns from AI workers<br \/>\nSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<br \/>\nOpenAI\u2019s CEO, Sam Altman, told employees on Tuesday that his company does not control how the Pentagon uses their artificial intelligence products in military operations. Altman\u2019s claims on OpenAI\u2019s lack of input come amid increased scrutiny of how the military uses AI in war and ethics concerns from AI workers over how their technology will be deployed.<br \/>\n\u201cYou do not get to make operational decisions,\u201d Altman told employees, according to reports by Bloomberg and CNBC. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO\u2019s claims come amid increased scrutiny of US military\u2019s use of the technology and ethics concerns from AI workers Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox OpenAI\u2019s CEO, Sam Altman, told employees on Tuesday that his company does not control how the Pentagon uses their artificial intelligence &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/sam-altman-admits-openai-cant-control-pentagons-use-of-ai\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sam Altman admits OpenAI can\u2019t control Pentagon\u2019s use of AI<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22199"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}