Market leader OpenAI rewrites rules to allow work with U.S. military on AI projects

OpenAI rewrote its rules to allow its work with the Department of Defense to proceed amid confusion about whether the company’s artificial intelligence projects violated the company’s guidelines, The Washington Times has learned. 

The Pentagon’s efforts to secure an AI advantage as adversaries such as China pursue their own programs are well underway. Last year, the Times reported that a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program bypassed security constraints to probe OpenAI’s ChatGPT and got the popular chatbot to generate bomb-making instructions. 

Until earlier this month, OpenAI’s internal rules prohibited the use of its AI models for the military and for weapons development. OpenAI scrubbed such prohibitions from its rules in a change first reported by The Intercept.