Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

Post by blitzar » Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 8:21 AM UTC

MattDamonSpace wrote: post #548

qaid wrote: post #62

I was reading halfway thru and one line struck a nerve with me: > But today, frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons. So not today, but the door is open for this after AI systems have gathered enough "training data"? Then I re-read the previous paragraph and realized it's specifically only criticizing > AI-driven domestic mass surveillance And neither denounces partially a…

The sentence prior explicitly says this. There’s no dishonesty here. “Even fully autonomous weapons (…) may prove critical for our national defense” FWIW there’s simply no way around this in the end. If your even attempts to create such weapons, the only possible defensive counter is weapons of a similar nature.

Post by pnt12 » Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 8:24 AM UTC

nerdsniper wrote: post #405

panarky wrote: post #360

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Does the Defense Production Act force employees to continue working at Anthropic?

No. It really only binds the corporation, but it does hold the executives/directors personally responsible for compliance so they’d be under a lot of pressure to figure out how to fix enough leaks in the ship to keep it afloat. Any individual director/executive could quit with little issue, but if they all did in a way that compromised the corporations ability to function, the courts could potentially utilize injunct…

Post by lm28469 » Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 8:25 AM UTC

skyberrys wrote: post #647

lm28469 wrote: post #610

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Idk man, from the outside anthropic looks a lot like openai with a cute redisgn and Amodei like Altman with a slightly more human face mask, the same media manipulation, the same vague baseless affirmations about "something big is coming and we can't even describe it but trust us we need more money"

Don't you always need more money though? I am a chip designer and I can tell you I am resource intensive to employ. I want access to plenty of expensive programs and data. With more money comes better tools and frequently better tools leads to the quality results you want to deliver to the customer.

Post by blitzar » Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 8:28 AM UTC

helaoban wrote: post #106

All of these problems are downstream of the Congress having thoroughly abdicated its powers to the executive. The military should be reigned in at the legislative level, by constraining what it can and cannot do under law. Popular action is the only way to make that happen. Energy directed anywhere else is a waste. Private corporations should never be allowed to dictate how the military acts. Such a thought would be…

Post by marxisttemp » Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 8:30 AM UTC

HDThoreaun wrote: post #534

protocolture wrote: post #531

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>I's enheartening to see that leaders at Anthropic are willing to risk losing their seat at the table to be guided by values. Their "Values": >We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner. Read: They are cool with whatever. >We support the use of AI for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions. Read: We support s…

Their values are about AI safety. Geopolitically they could care less. You might think its a bad take but at least they are consistent. AI safety people largely think that stuff like autonomous weapons are inevitable so they focus on trying to align them with humanity.