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"the government wants to use our tool to murder people", and declaring that company that says "no" into a "supply chain risk" is absolutely retaliatory and an attempt by the government to influence the behavior of the company.

The moral and ethical scale of the issue makes this far different than someone buying a pen.

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> "the government wants to use our tool to murder people", and declaring that company that says "no" into a "supply chain risk" is absolutely retaliatory and an attempt by the government to influence the behavior of the company.

If Lockheed could brick its planes if the US planned to use them for military action it disagreed with (and showed some indication they couldn't be trusted not to do it), would they be a supply chain risk?

It is not the role of a defense contractors to have oversight and control power over the military they're supplying.

The military could just use different AI models for the purposes Anthropic does not want its models used for.

Purposes Anthropic already spelled out in contract form.

Correct so what’s wrong with that? Plenty of open weight models to use

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