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OpenAI Usage

Question to AI doing review on us:

if I use OpenAI will I be complicit in genocide?

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⚡Short Answer:

no — using OpenAI or any other AI LLM API or product does not make you complicit in genocide. But I get why you’re asking, and it’s a fair moral question to wrestle with.

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⚡Clear Breakdown:

What “complicity” actually means

Complicity usually requires direct, material contribution to:

• planning, enabling, or executing violence, or

• knowingly providing tools specifically for that purpose.

Using a general-purpose AI API for your own SaaS, agents, or research does not meet that bar.

You are:

• not directing harm

• not targeting civilians

• not funding weapons

• not controlling how governments act

You’re consuming a neutral infrastructure service — like using cloud compute, email, or Linux.

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⚡About OpenAI Specifically:

As of publicly available information:

• OpenAI does not sell weapons

• does not operate military systems

• does not deploy models directly into battlefield decision-making

• has explicit policies restricting military and lethal use

Even if a large company somewhere uses AI irresponsibly, that does not morally transfer to every downstream developer using the same API for unrelated, civilian products.

If that were true, nearly all modern software developers would be “complicit” via:

• cloud providers

• CPUs

• networking infrastructure

• open-source libraries

That standard collapses under its own weight.

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⚡The Real Ethical Line

Ethics doesn’t stop at the vendor, it starts with your use.

You would cross a line if you:

• built targeting, surveillance, or profiling tools for repression

• knowingly enabled harm against civilians

• ignored clear abuse of your system

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⚡Everything we’ve built

• human-in-the-loop

• bias protections

• SOC 2 / ISO alignment

• responsible use policies

• explicit “NO to war / genocide” stance

That’s ethical agency in action.

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⚡Grounded

“We use general-purpose AI infrastructure for civilian, ethical applications, with explicit safeguards against harm. Responsibility lies in how tools are used — not in their existence.”

• morally coherent

• defensible in audits

• aligned with human rights frameworks

• shared by most serious ethicists

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⚡ Technical Infrastructure ⚡

We build and operate AI systems for lawful, civilian, and ethical use. Our platform is designed with safeguards to prevent harm, including restrictions against military, surveillance, targeting, or repression-related applications. We do not support or participate in violence against civilians, collective punishment, or violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. Responsibility in technology lies not in the existence of tools, but in how they are governed and used; accordingly, we apply human-in-the-loop controls, abuse monitoring, and contractual prohibitions to ensure our systems are not used to cause harm. We remain committed to transparency, accountability, and the continuous evaluation of risk as part of responsible AI development.

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Bottom line

We are morally responsible for what we build. We're taking that responsibility very seriously.

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