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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced Friday that his company has reached an agreement with the War Department to deploy its artificial intelligence models on its classified network, just hours after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to phase out rival Anthropic.
Altman said in a post on
“AI safety and broad distribution of benefits are at the core of our mission,” he said. “Two of our core security principles are the prohibition of domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapons systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we have incorporated them into our agreement.”
The deal came after Trump ordered every federal agency to stop using anthropic technology, escalating the standoff over how artificial intelligence should be used in military operations.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced an agreement with the War Department to deploy the company’s AI models on secret military networks. (Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
In a Truth Social post, Trump said agencies including the War Department would have a six-month phase-out period.
“Anthropic better get their act together and be helpful during this phase-out period, or I will use the full power of the presidency to bring them into compliance, with major civil and criminal consequences,” he wrote.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth later said he was directing the department to designate Anthropic as a “supply chain risk to national security.”
“Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier or partner doing business with the U.S. military may engage in any commercial activity with Anthropic,” he added. “Anthropic will continue to provide its services to the War Department for a period of up to six months to enable a seamless transition to better and more patriotic service delivery.”
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President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to phase out the anthropic technology as OpenAI secured a Pentagon deal. (Al Drago/Getty Images/Getty Images)
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had rejected previous War Department demands to allow its AI to be used for “all lawful purposes,” citing concerns about “mass domestic surveillance” and “fully autonomous weapons.”
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The Pentagon moved forward with an OpenAI deal after labeling Anthropic as a supply chain risk. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/Getty Images)
“We have not yet received direct communication from the War Department or the White House regarding the status of our negotiations,” the company said.
Anthropic added that it was “trying in good faith to reach an agreement with the War Department,” supporting all lawful national security uses of AI except for the two requested exceptions, which the company said “have not impacted any government mission to date.”
The company also called the supply chain risk designation an “unprecedented action – one historically reserved for U.S. adversaries and never before publicly applied to a U.S. company.”
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Altman said OpenAI would deploy additional security measures to ensure its models “behave as they should,” and that the company would only operate on cloud networks.
“We are asking the DoW to offer the same terms to all AI companies, and in our view we believe everyone should be willing to accept them,” Altman continued. “We have expressed our strong desire to see matters de-escalated, away from legal and government actions and toward reasonable agreements.”
