Sam Altman responds to signing with the Ministry of Defense: Hasty cooperation to ease the situation, AGI should be led by the government BlockBeats News: On March 2nd, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman launched a public Q&A on X yesterday, responding to community doubts about OpenAI's signing with the US Department of Defense. The original post received over 6.6 million views and more than 7500 replies. Regarding why the transaction was so rushed, Altman explained that OpenAI had only been in talks with the US Department of Defense for non confidential cooperation in the past few months, and had previously refused contracts in classified areas (later taken over by Anthropic). However, after Anthropic was banned, the US Department of Defense suddenly accelerated its deployment of classified information. OpenAI hastily signed the contract to "de escalate the situation" and stated that it had negotiated to ensure that the same terms would be open to all other AI laboratories. When asked why he didn't speak up for Anthropic, Altman stated that listing Anthropic as a "supply chain risk" is "very bad for the industry, the country, and Anthropic", "a very bad decision for the US Department of Defense, and I hope they withdraw", but at the same time, he said that Anthropic "seems to be more concerned about specific prohibitions in the contract rather than citing current laws in negotiations, and may want more operational control than us". Regarding OpenAI's own red line, Altman said, "If we are asked to do something unconstitutional or illegal, we will withdraw. Please visit me in prison When talking about overseas surveillance, Altman admitted that he "dislikes" the US military's surveillance of foreigners, stating that his most important AI principle is "democratization", and surveillance may go against this, but "I don't think it's up to me to decide". In the conclusion, Altman raises a question that is "hidden behind many questions" but not directly asked: What if the US government attempts to nationalize OpenAI or other AI projects? He stated that he has long believed that building AGI should perhaps be a government project.