SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 28 (Bernama-dpa) -- ChatGPT maker OpenAI said it has reached an agreement with the United States (US) Department of Defence to deploy its artificial intelligence models within the Pentagon's classified network following a dispute between the military and rival AI firm Anthropic, reported German Press Agency (dpa).
"Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network," OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman wrote on the social media platform X on Friday.
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth reposted the statement, as did senior Pentagon official Emil Michael.
Earlier on Friday, the dispute between the Defence Department and Anthropic escalated when Hegseth designated the company a supply chain risk to national security, barring US military contractors and partners from doing business with Anthropic with immediate effect.
The move followed an order by US President Donald Trump directing all federal agencies to halt the use of Anthropic software.
Anthropic previously insisted that its AI tools are not used for mass surveillance in the US or in fully autonomous weapons, according to chief executive Dario Amodei.
Altman said two of OpenAI's core safety principles "are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems."
He said the Defence Department "agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement." Further details were not disclosed.
Altman called on the Pentagon to offer the same conditions to all AI firms, saying such terms should be acceptable to any company, and added OpenAI would build technical safeguards to ensure its models behave as intended.
--BERNAMA-dpa
