{"id":715599,"date":"2026-03-08T00:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/openai-robotics-lead-caitlin-kalinowski-quits-in-response-to-pentagon-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T00:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T21:20:12","slug":"openai-robotics-lead-caitlin-kalinowski-quits-in-response-to-pentagon-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/openai-robotics-lead-caitlin-kalinowski-quits-in-response-to-pentagon-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI robotics lead Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hardware executive Caitlin Kalinowski announced today that in response to OpenAI\u2019s controversial agreement with the Department of Defense, she\u2019s resigned from her role leading the company\u2019s robotics team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis wasn\u2019t an easy call,\u201d Kalinowski said in a social media post<\/a>. \u201cAI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kalinowski, who previously led the team building augmented reality glasses at Meta, joined OpenAI in November 2024. In her announcement today, she emphasized that the decision was \u201cabout principle, not people\u201d and said she has \u201cdeep respect\u201d for CEO Sam Altman and the OpenAI team.<\/p>\n

In a follow-up post on X<\/a>, Kalinowski added, \u201cTo be clear, my issue is that the announcement was rushed without the guardrails defined. It\u2019s a governance concern first and foremost. These are too important for deals or announcements to be rushed.\u201d<\/p>\n

An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed Kalinowski\u2019s departure to TechCrunch.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe our agreement with the Pentagon creates a workable path for responsible national security uses of AI while making clear our red lines: no domestic surveillance and no autonomous weapons,\u201d the company said in a statement. \u201cWe recognize that people have strong views about these issues and we will continue to engage in discussion with employees, government, civil society and communities around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

OpenAI\u2019s agreement with the Pentagon was announced just over a week ago, after discussions between the Pentagon and Anthropic fell through as the AI company tried to negotiate for safeguards preventing its technology<\/a> from being used in mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. The Pentagon subsequently designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk. (Anthropic said it will fight the designation in court; in the meantime, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon said they will continue to make Anthropic\u2019s Claude available to non-defense customers.)<\/p>\n

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Then, OpenAI quickly announced a agreement of its own allowing its technology to be used in classified environments. As executives attempted to explain the deal on social media<\/a>, the company described it as taking \u201ca more expansive, multi-layered app<\/a>roach\u201d that relies not just on contract language, but also technical safeguards, to protect red lines similar to Anthropic\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the controversy appears to have damaged OpenAI\u2019s reputation among some consumers, with ChatGPT uninstalls surging 295% and Claude climbing to the top of the App Store charts. As of Saturday afternoon, Claude and ChatGPT remain the U.S. App Store\u2019s number one and number two free apps, respectively.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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