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This was on the news yesterday: > The meeting between Hegseth and Amodei was confirmed by a defense official who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/hegseth-to-meet-with-anthropi...
How about this quote instead? "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened Anthropic, saying officials could invoke powers that would allow the government to force the artificial intelligence firm to share its novel technology in the name of national security if it does not agree by Friday to terms favorable to the military" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/24/pentago...
Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge
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#142First they rushed a model to market without safety checks, and I said nothing. It wasn't my field. Then they ignored the researchers warning about what it could do, and I said nothing. It sounded like science fiction. Then they gave it control of things that matter, power grids, hospitals, weapons, and I said nothing. It seemed to be working fine. Then something went wrong, and no one knew how to stop it, no one had…
Kinda sounds like an intro for Terminator
Not OP, but I believe they are paraphrasing "First They Came…".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
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It turns out the biggest threat to AI safety is capitalism, who would have thought
I don’t get it. Even the Soviet Union used money. Simply paying for stuff isn’t necessarily capitalism? Or are you suggesting Anthropic should be state-owned?
No, capitalism is prioritising profit over all other priorities, as we see happening here.
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No, they either agreed or fought the government. You’re allowed to fight governments. Mahatma Gandhi and Reverend King Jr did it, and they wrote about how to do it. You might lose sometimes, but my god, you can at least fight.
Neither of them had shareholders to please.
They had citizens to please and society to take care of.
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#145I don’t blame anthropic here. The government literally threatened their existence publicly. They either agreed or their business would be nationalized.
No, they either agreed or fought the government. You’re allowed to fight governments. Mahatma Gandhi and Reverend King Jr did it, and they wrote about how to do it. You might lose sometimes, but my god, you can at least fight.
They were both pushing on open doors
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#147What an interesting week to drop the safety pledge. This is how all of these companies work. They’ll follow some ethical code or register as a PBC until that undermined profits. These companies are clearly aiming at cheapening the value of white collar labor. Ask yourself: will they steward us into that era ethically? Or will they race to transfer wealth from American workers to their respective shareholders?
Could be a sort of canary, with the timing being a spotlight on the highly-visible pressure coming from the U.S. government.
The other providers have already capitulated to a certain extent.
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> This article has nothing to do with the current tête-à-tête with the Pentagon. The article yes, but we cannot be sure about its topic. We definitely cannot claim that they are unrelated. We don't know. It's possible that the two things have nothing to do with each other. It's also possible that they wanted to prevent worse requests and this was a preventive measure.
This is something they've been working on "in recent months". The Pentagon thing was today . This cannot have been caused by that, unless they've also invented time travel.
> The Pentagon thing was today.
Right because we are 100% aware of everything the pentagon does minute by minute...
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No, they either agreed or fought the government. You’re allowed to fight governments. Mahatma Gandhi and Reverend King Jr did it, and they wrote about how to do it. You might lose sometimes, but my god, you can at least fight.
Neither of them had shareholders to please.
I don't believe anthropic has shareholders either. It is not a public company
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#150I don’t blame anthropic here. The government literally threatened their existence publicly. They either agreed or their business would be nationalized.
Pepperidge farm remembers when they left OpenAI due to their principles. Perhaps that was never the case.
Public benefit corporation, hm?