AI Warfare After being caught quietly removing mentions of a ban on “military and warfare” from its usage policies page, OpenAI is working with the Pentagon. As Bloomberg reports, the company confirmed that it’s working with the US Defense Department on open-source cybersecurity software and is also looking into ways to prevent veteran suicide with its tech. OpenAI VP of global affairs Anna Makanju revealed the company’s reversal in its willingness to work with the military during a Bloomberg talk at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week. “Because we previously had what was essentially a blanket prohibition on military, many people thought that would prohibit many of these use cases, which people think are very much aligned with what we want to see in the world,” she said, as quoted by Bloomberg. However, OpenAI is keeping a ban in place for having its tech being used to develop weapons or harm people. Weapons Ban The news comes after The Intercept noticed that OpenAI quietly yanked mentions of a ban on “military and warfare” from its “usage policies” last week. According to the revised webpage, the changes are meant to make the policies “clearer” and “more readable.” “Any use of our technology, including by the military, to ‘[develop] or [use] weapons, [injure] others or [destroy] property, or [engage] in unauthorized activities that violate the security of any service or system,’ is disallowed,” OpenAI spokesperson Niko Felix told The Intercept. It’s an especially notable change considering OpenAI’s largest investor, Microsoft,…OpenAI Axes Ban on Military Contracts, Reveals Deal With Pentagon