New Delhi, March 4 -- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday defended the company's decision to allow ChatGPT to be used for classified assignments by the US government, according to multiple media reports. The ChatGPT maker faced a lot of criticism after it announced the deal with the Pentagon last week, just hours after US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that Anthropic would be categorized as a supply chain risk, a designation usually reserved for adversarial foreign companies.

Altman said, as quoted byThe Wall Street Journal, that he did not regret signing the deal with the Defense Department, but he wished he had not announced the decision so quickly, making it look "opportunistic" and "not united with the field."

Meanwhile, according...