Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei questions OpenAI’s Pentagon deal: Was it opportunistic

Anthropic president Daniela Amodei has questioned OpenAI’s Pentagon agreement. Speaking alongside her brother, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, she suggested the rival company may have acted opportunistically when it reached a deal after Anthropic disputed the US government's military use of AI. Her comments came during an interview with Walter Isaacson for his podcast “The Builders,” according to an excerpt the New York Post obtained.“Was this a really principled stand that another technology company took based on their own ethics, or was this an opportunistic moment?” Daniela said when asked about OpenAI stepping in. The criticism centers on whether OpenAI’s agreement preserved meaningful safeguards after Anthropic refused to remove restrictions on mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons.Why Anthropic refused the Pentagon’s requestThe dispute began in February, when Anthropic declined to abandon those restrictions on its AI models.