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Most people’s LLM use cases don’t involve autonomous weapons

Do any autonomous weapons have an LLM usecase yet? As opposed to say, specialized visual ML stuff that can fit on a small portable system.

The DoD office staff using it for information analysis, similar to Palantir providing data integration software, isn't quite the same as using it for weapons.

>As opposed to say, specialized visual ML stuff that can fit on a small portable system.

What do you think writes the code for that and trains the models?

That’s part of why this is all so stupid. Anthropic’s red lines seem very reasonable. Feels incredibly arbitrary for the DoD to cancel the contract and declare it a supply chain risk.

That's the way I see it. I've commented previously that I see this mostly as a Soviet-style loyalty test not really about the specific technical concerns of developing weapon systems or surveillance.

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