[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
What will the new American reich accomplish?
Likely the same thing as all the proceeding empires - carnage, destruction, and the laughter of blood thirsty gods.
It's insane how numb I am becoming to these blurry thin lines
People like married women who changed their name, or foreign sounding people, they will be prevented to vote in 2026. ICE will guard polls to physically make people unable to reach the ballots
Specifically, he would need the US Congress to draft and pass legislation moving the date of the election. I don't know how eager they are, though, to create an unnecessary constitutional crisis.
It's pretty clear that Trump wants to maximize his take over of USA for himself.
This whole thing seems like people talking past each other, and that there’s something being left unsaid.
Anthropic doesn’t make a product that would assist with kill drones, and they don’t have the right to deny subpoenas.
I take that to mean they don't want the military using Claude to decide who to kill. As a hyperbolic yet frankly realistic example, they don't want Claude to make a mistake and direct the military to kill innocent children accidentally identified as narco-terrorists.
At least, that's the most charitable interpretation of everything going on. I suspect they are also worried that the sitting administration wants to use AI to help them execute a full autocratic takeover of the United States, so they're attempting to kill one of the world's most innovative companies to set an example and pressure other AI labs into letting their technology be used for such purposes.
Obviously the military wants to use it for that purpose since they couldn't accept Anthropic's extremely limited terms.
One can easily and immediately infer the answers to both your questions are yes.
Anthropic’s safeguards already prevent what you are describing, again the thing thar DoW has said they don’t want.
Giving precedence to words over actions is how you get taken advantage, abused, deceived, etc.
But Dario is showing weakness here by talking around it. Whatever they were asked to do, they should just be upfront about.
Anthropic is not being asked to do anything, except renegotiate the contracts. The DoW Claude models run on government AWS. Anthropic has minimal access to these systems and does not see the classified data that is being ingested as prompts. It is very unlikely that Dario actually knows what the DoW wants to do with these models. But even if he did, it would be classified information that he is not at liberty to disclose.
However the product they provide likely has safety filters that cause some prompts to not be processed if it is violates the two contractual conditions. That is what the DoW wants removed.
Did the DoW ask them to make kill drones? Because if so THAT IS A REALLY BIG DEAL.
The vagueness is irritating. He’s saying they won’t do something, the DoW is saying they don’t even want them to do that, which should resolve the issue, but hasn’t. There is obviously something else at play here.
If the DoD did not want those things, it would not be forcing a contract renegotiation to include them, at great cost to the government.
That’s the point I’m trying to make here: Anthropic should just say the unsaid thing here.
DoW asked for the following thing: $foo. We won’t give that to them.
> DoW asked for the following thing: $foo. We won’t give that to them.
Anthropic has explicitly said that multiple times, including in the letter we are presently discussing.
$foo is the ability to use Claude for domestic mass surveillance and analysis, and/or fully-autonomous killbots.
Here's the Chief Pentagon Spokesman pointing to the same verbiage and reiterating they they won't agree to those terms of use.
> The Department of War has no interest in using AI to conduct mass surveillance of Americans (which is illegal) nor do we want to use AI to develop autonomous weapons that operate without human involvement.
Tomorrow he could change his mind to "we want to use AI to develop autonomous weapons that operate without human involvement." the issue is that he wants Anthropic to change the use terms because "We will not let ANY company dictate the terms regarding how we make operational decisions."
>>no he didn’t he actually said the opposite of that and the link you just posted says the opposite of what you are claiming
>but he might change his mind!
Okay?
>Did the DoW ask for these things?
>Did the DoW ask for that?
I showed you where the spokeperson asked for the terms to change so they could make autonomous weapons. now, you're shifting the goal posts.
I'm torn here. Who should we believe? The normal people or the people who operate exclusively in dishonesty?
Is a pundit/politician lying to you a new experience?
Where is all the weird misinformation in these comments coming from?
OpenAI has already said that they’ll give up whatever info the government wants if they’re issued a subpoena; they don’t have a choice.
If anthro is saying they won’t, that’s good!
Hegseth objected to guardrails being "woke". Something about "curly haired" almost-men telling him how he can use his "war fighters".
I speculate that Trump and Hegseth were both late to the realization that AI could unwind, for example, the next Panama Papers, and are doing this to try to demonstrate power to the industry. Musk tried to explain all this, but they actually encountered him as "autistic". This all looks like a disjointed conversation because we can see slightly more of the future than them.