Our approach to government and national security partnerships
OpenAI Blog · 2026-07-08
OpenAI publishes its National Security Principles and announces expanded cybersecurity and biosecurity AI partnerships with the U.S. government and nine allied nations, while setting explicit prohibitions on surveillance, autonomous weapons, and high-stakes automated decisions.
Extraction
Topics: ai-policynational-securityopenaiai-governancecybersecurity
Claims
- OpenAI has established Trusted Access for Cyber partnerships with Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, France, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, and EU institutions including ENISA as part of its Daybreak cyber defense program.
- OpenAI's National Security Principles prohibit use of its technology for mass domestic surveillance, directing autonomous weapons systems, and high-stakes automated decisions without human judgment.
- OpenAI's GPT-Rosalind model has been made available to select U.S. government and allied partners for public health and biodefense missions.
- OpenAI supports legislative efforts to establish safeguards around the highest-risk military AI uses, including domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.
- OpenAI believes that the most consequential questions about AI in national security should be resolved through democratic processes rather than decided unilaterally by AI companies.
Key quotes
democratic societies should be able to use AI to protect people, defend critical infrastructure, deliver public services, and respond to emerging threats
increasingly capable AI systems must be deployed in ways that reinforce democratic accountability, meaningful human judgment, and the rule of law
The role of companies like ours is to help inform those decisions, not make them alone.