US EditionOpenAI Responds to Its Robotics Lead Resigning Over ‘Lethal Autonomy’ Concerns in New Pentagon Deal
- Caitlin Kalinowski, senior robotics leader, resigned on Saturday, March 7, 2026, shortly after OpenAI disclosed a Pentagon partnership; she posted 'I resigned from OpenAI' on X and LinkedIn.
- Citing governance concerns, Caitlin Kalinowski said the announcement was rushed and lacked defined guardrails, warning surveillance without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization needed more deliberation.
- OpenAI said the Pentagon deal creates a responsible path with no domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons and confirmed Kalinowski's Saturday resignation to TechCrunch, while Anthropic's talks collapsed over stricter limits.
- Taken together, a lawsuit claims ChatGPT helped produce legal filings that forced a company to spend resources, increasing governance pressures, OpenAI said.
- As officials court AI firms, the Department of Defense aggressively pursues major AI developers to modernize military operations, while industry divisions deepen as Anthropic rejects terms on surveillance and lethal autonomy.
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"It was a matter of principle, not of people." On March 7, Caitlin Kalinowski slammed the door to OpenAI. According to Les Numériques, the CEO of the company of AI, Sam Altman, would have signed this agreement in exchange for certain guarantees on the use of its technology by the US state, such as, for example, the presence of engineers at defence sites that will use models of artificial intelligence. The former director of the robotics team exp…
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has terminated its $200 million contract with Anthropic, officially because it demanded that its IA Claude not serve to massively monitor the Americans and pilot lethal weapons alone. But by enlisting OpenAi promoter of ChatGPt more flexible, the Pentagon opens a burning debate.
OpenAI Robotics Chief Resigns Over Pentagon AI Contract
Caitlin Kalinowski, who led hardware and robotics operations at OpenAI since November 2024, has resigned from the artificial intelligence company, citing concerns over CEO Sam Altman’s contract with the Department of War. Kalinowski announced her departure in posts on social media platform X and LinkedIn, explaining that her decision was based on principles related to the potential military use of artificial intelligence. “I resigned from OpenAI…
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