New Delhi, March 3 -- OpenAI, the creator of foundational artificial intelligence behind ChatGPT, announced on Friday that it has signed a deal with the Pentagon. It allows the US department of war (DoW), formerly the department of defense, to use the Sam Altman-led company's models in classified environments.

That has raised eyebrows and questions over the use of the OpenAI technology stack in India, among the largest markets for AI and the fastest adopter of the technology worldwide. An expert columnist in Mint recently flagged pointed to how deployment boundaries of AI systems could change as they scale.

What, then, are the terms of the OpenAI-DoW deal? Will this impact Indian AI startups? What does this mean for AI governance worldw...