OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday defended the company's decision to allow ChatGPT to be used for classified assignments by the US government, according to multiple media reports. Reportedly, the US government used Anthropic's AI during the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the recent strikes in Iran. However, the Pentagon is also said to have talked with Elon Musk's xAI to allow for using its models across classified use cases. OpenAI had set three conditions for the use of its AI models by the Pentagon: no use of its AI for mass domestic surveillance, direct autonomous weapons systems or high-stakes automated decisions. Altman reportedly said that xAI will, however, pose no such requests to the Pentagon and will do whatever the agency says.

Source: Mint March 04, 2026 12:01 UTC