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There is a disconnect between OpenAI's safety-first branding and its defense revenue reality as employees who joined to "benefit humanity" are now coming to understand that they are building tools for battlefield intelligence. Altman can add constitutional language and exclude domestic surveillance, but the core product still enables lethal autonomous weapons. ...
Altman has positioned OpenAI as a utility provider, not a moral arbiter, saying he’d "rather go to jail" than follow an unconstitutional order. ...
See the full editorial here: https://shellypalmer.com/2026/03/openai-employees-dont-get-to-choose-wars/