OpenAI's top exec resignation exposes something bigger than one Pentagon deal

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Generative AI Robotics

The OpenAI Pentagon story keeps getting interesting. Caitlin Kalinowski (robotics lead) resigned this weekend, and the important part isn't the resignation itself. It's her framing. She wasn't anti-military AI. She said the announcement was rushed before the governance framework was ready. Her concern was specifically about surveillance without judicial oversight and autonomous weapons without human authorization, and that those conversations didn't get enough time before the deal went public. Then 500+ employees from Google and OpenAI signed that "We Will Not Be Divided" open letter.