Prof. Alan Rozenshtein Interviewed by The Atlantic About Pentagon’s Deal With OpenAI

Professor Alan Rozenshtein was interviewed by The Atlantic about the business deal that OpenAI signed with the Department of Defense, following the Pentagon’s sudden turn against Anthropic. OpenAI will now supply its technology to the military for use in classified settings which may involve wartime decisions and intelligence-gathering. Legal experts say this could give the government wide-ranging powers. While OpenAI has said it has certain restrictions around some applications of its technology, a State Department official wrote that the government’s contract with OpenAI permits “all lawful use” of its systems. Prof. Rozenshtein said that this messaging “at best makes [OpenAI] seem like they’re not fully on top of this, and at worst reinforces the perception, fair or not, that OpenAI has a tendency to not be very candid.”