The Department of War plans to convene a working group made up of leaders from the frontier AI labs, cloud providers, and the Department’s policy and operational communities. OpenAI will participate and expect this will be an important forum for ongoing dialogue on emerging AI capabilities, privacy, and national security challenges going forward.

These updates build on the framework we announced last week and we hope will help create a pathway for other labs to work with the Department going forward.

Yesterday we reached an agreement with the Pentagon for deploying advanced AI systems in classified environments, which we requested they also make available to all AI companies.

We think our agreement has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic’s. Here’s why.