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The Robotics Revolt: Why OpenAI’s Top Hardware Executive Quit Over the Pentagon’s New AI Pact

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Feed Name: securityonline.info

Date Published: 2026-03-09

Date Updated: 2026-04-23

Author: Ddos

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OpenAI's acceptance of a Pentagon contract triggered the resignation of robotics lead Caitlin Kalinowski, who condemned the deal for lacking predefined safety guardrails and warned against domestic surveillance and autonomous lethal systems; OpenAI defends the agreement and insists on enforced red lines, while rival Anthropic was penalized by the DoD for refusing to relax its ethical constraints.

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