[ExI] OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash

Sat Feb 28 23:09:21 UTC 2026

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From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 

>> John, you seem very sure of yourself. 

>…So do you….

I am not claiming to know.  But you are.

We do not know what the pentagon has or doesn’t have.  We don’t even know what the US Space Force does.  We don’t know.

> Do you have a clearance? 

Nope. Do you?

 John K Clark

No, and that’s the point.  The US military (and every other military) has not been sitting on its hands worrying about AI for the past three decades.  We know DARPA has been funding AI research for some time.  It has a lot of money and a lot of computing resources.  It has a lot of research that you and I don’t know about.  So… I avoid speculating on what they have and don’t have.

If the pentagon refused a particular company’s product, you can be sure they have a workaround or something better.  You can be sure that those creating military AI weapons must know exactly what is in their training.  Otherwise they couldn’t trust them.

spike

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