Sam Altman: Revise cooperation agreement with the US Department of Defense to clarify that AI cannot be used to monitor US citizens According to BlockBeats, on March 3rd, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman forwarded an internal letter stating, "We have been working with the US Department of Defense (DoW) to supplement the agreement to clarify our principles. We will modify the agreement by adding the following clause as a supplement to the existing provisions: 'According to applicable laws, including the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, the National Security Act of 1947, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), AI systems may not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of US citizens and nationals.'. To avoid ambiguity, the Department of Defense understands that this restriction prohibits intentional tracking, monitoring, or surveillance of US citizens or nationals, including the acquisition or use of commercially obtained personal or identifiable information. '' Protecting the civil liberties of American citizens is crucial. Given the high level of attention from the outside world, we would like to make this particularly clear, including information related to commercial acquisition. As we have always done in iterative deployment, we will continue to learn and continuously optimize. I think this is an important modification, and the Ministry of National Defense has also confirmed that our services will not be used by the intelligence agencies of the Ministry of National Defense (such as NSA). To be extremely clear, we hope to carry out our work through democratic procedures. At present, technology is not yet mature in many aspects, and we are still unclear about the trade-offs required for security in many fields. In the weekend discussion, I reiterated that Anthropic should not be designated as SCR and hoped that the Ministry of Defense would give them the same terms as our agreement