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Casey Newton @Casey@theforkiverse.com

3/3/2026, 2:15:18 AM

Public

Sam Altman's deal with the Pentagon seems too good to be true. So what happens when the truth inevitably comes out? https://www.platformer.news/openai-pentagon-surveillance-drones-backlash/

Indeed. But in the end I’m left asking myself what will happen in the scenario that still seems disturbingly likely — that GPT models will in fact be used as part of surveillance and drone operations. Will it put up a blog post to explain that, well actually, that’s a lawful kind of surveillance? Do an AMA about how, despite how it may look, that autonomous drone swarm had proper human supervision? OpenAI does enough polling to understand that Americans already distrust and even openly loathe AI, even as they increasingly turn to it for work and school. How does it think Americans will feel when GPT models are powering ICE raids or causing civilian casualties in wars abroad?

The company may have tied its own hands. In the end, the truth about US military operations always seems to come out one way or another. And when it does, I suspect the “all lawful use” standard that OpenAI agreed to will have permitted a far wider range of operations than we are now being told are possible.

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