Commentary
On March 7, Caitlin Kalinowski—OpenAI’s head of robotics and hardware—resigned over her company’s Pentagon deal, stating that surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization were lines that “deserved more deliberation than they got.” Her departure followed Microsoft, Google, and Amazon Web Services—the platforms through which businesses and individuals access Claude—each independently issuing careful legal statements to their users that the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk designation against Anthropic applies only to its federal contracts and does not affect access through their platforms for non-defense workloads.
