What Dario Amodei wouldn't do, Sam Altman would! Here's why the OpenAI CEO signed a deal with the US Department of War - and why he wants you to visit him in jail if things go wrong...

Dario Amodei wasn’t able to agree to the US Department of War’s (DoW) demands when it came to using Anthropic’s AI; OpenAI’s Sam Altman could - and in pretty rapid time too. So what is that’s in OpenAI’s deal that apparently makes this possible, given that at first glance they look very alike?

In an attempt to address those questions, and try to calm down some of the criticism online that OpenAI's action has attracted, Altman and his team over the weekend attempted to provide some answers/explain their positioning. Did they succeed? Read on and decide for yourself.

In a blog post, the firm repeated its own red lines over the use of its tech by the military. In summary, these are no use for mass domestic surveillance, no directing autonomous weapons, and no high-stakes automated decisions - the same objections that Anthropic had ...