ChatGPT Backlash Reveals New Pitfalls in Aligning With Trump

It took only a few hours for Sam Altman’s timing to go from bad to worse. On Friday evening, the chief executive officer of OpenAI announced the company would step into the role at the Department of Defense vacated earlier that day by Anthropic PBC, which had angered Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth by refusing to allow its artificial intelligence models to be used for “all lawful purposes.” In particular, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wanted assurances its technology wouldn’t be used for conducting mass surveillance of Americans or controlling fully autonomous weapons. That same night, US and Israeli ...