{"id":47073,"date":"2026-03-07T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/openais-robotics-head-quits-after-companys-pentagon-deal-this-was-about-principle\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:51:21","slug":"openais-robotics-head-quits-after-companys-pentagon-deal-this-was-about-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/openais-robotics-head-quits-after-companys-pentagon-deal-this-was-about-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI&#8217;s robotics head quits after company&#8217;s Pentagon deal: &#8216;This was about principle&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69ac5dd3fd4fbd083f29b952?format=jpeg\" alt=\"OpenAI logo\"\/><figcaption>OpenAI&#039;s head of robotics, Caitlin Kalinowski, announced she was resigning from the company.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Boivin\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Caitlin Kalinowski said she had resigned from OpenAI on Saturday.<\/li>\n<li>In an X post, she said criticized OpenAI&#039;s deal with the Pentagon.<\/li>\n<li>The deal raised concerns over the use of AI surveillance and lethal autonomous systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Caitlin Kalinowski, a hardware executive who joined OpenAI from Meta in 2024 and leads its robotics division, said she is resigning from the company.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Saturday, Kalinowski criticized OpenAI&#039;s recent deal with the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;AI 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,&quot; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>She called her resignation a matter of principle, and said she still deeply respects OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the team and is proud of their robotics work.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI struck a deal with the Pentagon last week, allowing the Department of Defense to use its AI products. The agreement came after its rival Anthropic refused a similar deal over concerns that the technology would be used for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI&#039;s head of robotics, Caitlin Kalinowski, announced she was resigning from the company. Samuel Boivin\/NurPhoto via Getty Images Caitlin Kalinowski said she had resigned from OpenAI on Saturday. In an X post, she said criticized OpenAI&#039;s deal with the Pentagon. The deal raised concerns over the use of AI surveillance and lethal autonomous systems. Caitlin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}