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Re: The Pentagon threatens Anthropic

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Anthropic cutting off the Pentagon is saying in no uncertain terms that they support allowing the PRC access to frontier military technology but not the US.

Incredibly dumb take considering Dario Amodei has been extremely hawkish on China and especially about selling them chips that may allow them to catch up to the US level of capabilities...

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Re: The Pentagon threatens Anthropic

#24

I understand that Anthropic has one of the most popular products in the market. But no one, especially the government, should get in bed with them, when anthropic leadership has a track record trying to use their early mover advantace, to effectively create an AI cartel [1] I'm glad Anthropic is getting a taste of their own medicine. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-10-15/anthro...

I can't grok this comment. Are you pro or anti-cartel?

Re: The Pentagon threatens Anthropic

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post #12

Point blank one of the most nakedly evil things the government has ever tried to do. Apparently Anthropic's sticking points were no using the model for autonomous kill orders and no mass surveillance...

The voters and congress tell the military how to use technology, not Anthropic. Shifting the decision to Anthropic takes away power from the citizenship. Edit: The point is, go vote if you don't agree with what the administration is doing. Somebody will sell the DoD whatever they want no matter what Anthropic does.

You might want to go look at the laws that were passed in the wake of WWII. The US could trivially nationalize Anthopic if they want to play games with a weapons technology.

Re: The Pentagon threatens Anthropic

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post #8

Imagine a world where in order to do business in the US you must grant the government control of your company. This sounds worse than even the most alarmist China takes.

Sounds exactly like China to me.

Yeah except in their society some cool shit happens at least.

Re: The Pentagon threatens Anthropic

#27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're smoking something funny. They have just shown they are willing to designate a US company as essentially a foreign spy agency because they wanted to try and renegotiate a contract and didn't get what they wanted and that's your reaction?

>>>> willing to designate a US company as essentially a foreign spy agency Can you quote where I said that ?

can you quote where they claimed the above was your statement?

Re: The Pentagon threatens Anthropic

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post #12

Point blank one of the most nakedly evil things the government has ever tried to do. Apparently Anthropic's sticking points were no using the model for autonomous kill orders and no mass surveillance...

The voters and congress tell the military how to use technology, not Anthropic. Shifting the decision to Anthropic takes away power from the citizenship. Edit: The point is, go vote if you don't agree with what the administration is doing. Somebody will sell the DoD whatever they want no matter what Anthropic does.

What percentage of voters do you think want the Pentagon to institute an AI-powered domestic mass surveillance program?

Re: The Pentagon threatens Anthropic

#29

Anthropic cutting off the Pentagon is saying in no uncertain terms that they support allowing the PRC access to frontier military technology but not the US.

Incredibly dumb take considering Dario Amodei has been extremely hawkish on China and especially about selling them chips that may allow them to catch up to the US level of capabilities...

The Chinese models are 3, maybe 6 months behind Anthropic, they’re not that special.

Re: The Pentagon threatens Anthropic

#30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're smoking something funny. They have just shown they are willing to designate a US company as essentially a foreign spy agency because they wanted to try and renegotiate a contract and didn't get what they wanted and that's your reaction?

>>>> willing to designate a US company as essentially a foreign spy agency Can you quote where I said that ?

You wrote:

> I'm glad Anthropic is getting a taste of their own medicine.

I took that to mean that you support the Pentagon's threat which essentially IS to label Anthropic as a national security threat, simply because they wouldn't give the Pentagon the right to use Anthropic's AI to operate weapons or spy on American citizens.

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