(Washington) OpenAI boss Sam Altman announced on Monday a series of changes to the agreement recently concluded between his company and the US Department of Defense regarding access to its artificial intelligence (AI) models.
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“We have worked with the War Department to add some elements to our agreement to clarify our principles,” Sam Altman wrote in a post on X, using the name given by the Trump administration to its Defense Department.
According to Mr. Altman, one of the additions stipulates that OpenAI’s AI systems must not be used “intentionally” for the purpose of “surveillance” of American citizens.
The boss of OpenAI – creator of ChatGPT – says he wants to protect “civil liberties”.
The Pentagon assured that OpenAI’s services “would not be used by the intelligence agencies of the War Department”, in particular the American National Security Agency (NSA), according to Sam Altman.
Any services provided to these agencies would require an additional modification to the agreement, he added.
These clarifications come just days after the US Department of Defense chose OpenAI’s AI models, over Anthropic.
The company behind the AI assistant Claude had refused to open its models without restrictions to the American army in the name of ethics, provoking the ire of Donald Trump.
