OpenAI’s Altman Won’t Rule Out Helping Pentagon on AI Weapons

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said he would not rule out helping the Pentagon develop a new weapons platform, the latest sign of a shift in how artificial intelligence companies think about working with the defense sector.

“I will never say never, because the world could get really weird,” Altman said on Thursday during remarks at the Vanderbilt Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats. However, Altman cautioned that he didn’t expect to work on such a platform for the Pentagon “in the foreseeable future,” unless it would be a trade-off among really bad options.