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I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Post by mkozlows »

coffeemug wrote: post #32

I can honestly understand both positions. The U.S. military must be able to use technology as it sees fit; it cannot allow private companies to control the use of military equipment. Anthropic must prevent a future where AIs make autonomous life and death decisions without humans in the loop. Living in that future is completely untenable. What I don’t understand is why the two parties couldn’t reach agreement. Surely…

If the government doesn't want to sign a deal on Anthropic's terms, they can just not sign the deal. Abusing their powers to try to kill Anthropic's ability to do business with other companies is 10000% bullshit.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Post by general1465 »

Ukrainians and Russians are experimenting with FPV drones using AI for target acquisition and homing. Not yet economically viable because it is cheaper to give your FPV fiber spool instead of Nvidia Jetson to bypass jamming.

When we have first politician blown to bits by autonomous AI FPV there will be sheer panic of every politician in the world to put the genie back into the bottle. It will be too late at that point.

Anthropic is correct with its no killbot rule.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Post by tgma »

thewebguyd wrote: post #49
tgma wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> completely understandable decision from a neutral third party PoV. Except it's not, really. If Anthropic/Claude doesn't mean the DoD's need, they can and should just put out an RFP for other LLM providers. I'm sure there's plenty of others that'd happily forgo their morals for that sweet government contract money. No US company has to provide services to the DoD or any other branch of government. It's not "veto pow…

I don't understand your point here. Looks like what you suggest is exactly what is happening. US government did not ban Anthropic from conducting business in the US. They just don't want them to influence their own supply chain, 100% legal as you say.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Post by small_model »

canadiantim wrote: post #37

Grok in US gov in 3 2 1…

Already there 'February 23, 2026: The Pentagon confirmed a new agreement allowing Grok use in classified systems. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced it would go live soon on unclassified and classified networks, alongside other models, as part of feeding military data into AI.'

This will mean Grok becomes the defacto US Gov AI provider.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Post by onlyrealcuzzo »

johnbarron wrote: post #51
NickAndresen wrote: post #15

"They have threatened to remove us from their systems if we maintain these safeguards; they have also threatened to designate us a “supply chain risk”—a label reserved for US adversaries, never before applied to an American company—and to invoke the Defense Production Act to force the safeguards’ removal. These latter two threats are inherently contradictory: one labels us a security risk; the other labels Claude as…

Is this the same Administration that reversed a previous block, and allowed NVIDIA to sell H200 to China?

Good thing this administration will be a lame duck in 8 months, and they know it.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Post by Gigachad »

cperciva wrote: post #35
Gigachad wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s the crazy thing. This whole dispute was over Anthropic saying no to fully automated kill bots. They only required there be a human in the loop to press the button.

There were two red lines, as I understand it -- first, automated kill bots, and second, mass surveillance.

I guess the problem for Trump is if he orders the army to gun down protesters, there’s a good chance they will refuse to do it. While a bot can just be prompted to go ahead.
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