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Controversial tech company quietly deletes ban on "military" use from terms of service
OpenAI, maker of the popular ChatGPT platform, quietly changed its usage policy to allow the company to work with the military, opening up a potential rift among company staff.
"Our policy does not allow our tools to be used to harm people, develop weapons, for communications surveillance, or to injure others or destroy property," an OpenAI spokesperson told Fox News Digital. The Computer World report pointed to one such example last May, when hundreds of tech leaders and other public figures signed an open letter warning that AI could eventually lead to an extinction event and that putting guardrails in place to prevent that should be a priority. Samuel Mangold-Lenett, a staff editor at The Federalist, expressed a similar sentiment, arguing that the best way to prevent a catastrophic event at the hands of an adversary such as China is for the U.S. to build its own robust AI capabilities for military use.
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