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On 28 February 2026 OpenAI said it had reached an agreement with the Pentagon to deploy advanced AI systems in classified environments, with three main red lines: no mass domestic surveillance, no directing autonomous weapons and no high-stakes automated decisions.
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OpenAI February 28, 2026 [...] Yesterday we reached an agreement with the Pentagon for deploying advanced AI systems in classified environments [...] We have three main red lines that guide our work with the DoW, which are generally shared by several other frontier labs: No use of OpenAI technology for mass domestic surveillance. No use of OpenAI technology to direct autonomous weapons systems. No use of OpenAI technology for high-stakes automated decisions
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