By https://www.abc.net.au/news/luke-cooper/104477724
Publication Date: 2026-03-26 23:11:00
Artificial intelligence (AI) companies are in a “perfect storm,” experts say.
The sector is trying to control the usage and performance of its platforms while maintaining profits and is struggling with a campaign to boycott the technology.
A “QuitGPT” protest movement has been launched against OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the industry fears the Trump administration could use AI for autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.
Technology company OpenAI says its ChatGPT artificial intelligence platform is used by 900 million people worldwide every week. (Reuters: Dado Ruvic)
Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s top spokesman, posted on social media that the military “has no interest in using AI for mass surveillance of Americans (which is illegal), nor do we want to use AI to develop autonomous weapons that work without human involvement.”
Rival AI company Anthropic and the US government are also embroiled in a legal battle over the Pentagon’s placing it on a national security blacklist after…
