This deal is less about technology and more about neutralizing the ethical high ground held by rivals like Anthropic. By embedding its own "safeguards" into a Pentagon contract, OpenAI is attempting to set the de facto industry standard for military AI collaboration. The critical question now is whether these are meaningful constraints or simply a political pass for accelerating AI's role in defense.
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