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Caitlin Kalinowski Resigns from OpenAI Over Pentagon Ethics

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OpenAI's robotics/hardware lead resigned: "surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation." Highest-profile AI lab ethics resignation since the Anthropic exodus from OpenAI in 2021. TechCrunch

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