Sam Altman &
' @sama
Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy
our models in their classified network.
In al of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety
and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.
Al safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission.
Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic
mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force,
including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these
principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our
agreement.
We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as
they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help
with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud
networks only.
We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all Al companies,
which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We
have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from
legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.
We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world
is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.
7:56 PM - February 27, 2026