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This headline unfortunately offers more smoke than light. This article has nothing to do with the current tête-à-tête with the Pentagon. It is discussing one specific change to Anthropic's "Responsible Scaling Policy" that the company publicly released today as version "3.0".
I consider this a bigger deal than the Pentagon thing.
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Plenty of people have said plenty. The problem isn’t the warnings, it’s that people are too stupid and greedy to think about the long term impacts.
Maybe it's how blunt this comment is that gets it downvoted, but I don't disagree.
Unless you’re independently wealthy (as some in HN are), you have to balance your morals, your views of how things should work, feeding your family, and recognizing that you may not actually know everything.
It’s easy to sit back and advise others that they should die on every single hill. But it’s not especially insightful, and serves mostly to signal piety rather than a well thought out view.
It must be due to pressure from the Defense Dept: The AI startup has refused to remove safeguards that would prevent its technology from being used to target weapons autonomously and conduct U.S. domestic surveillance. Pentagon officials have argued the government should only be required to comply with U.S. law. During the meeting, Hegseth delivered an ultimatum to Anthropic: get on board or the government would take…
They probably have proof in contracts that they agreed to this usage. They won’t alter the deal based on some bad press nor do they want to lose the DoD-DoW as a customer.
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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.
9 days ago: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/15/claude-pentagon-anthropic-c... And I suspect that was not the first time the topic was discussed.
I don't know enough to evaluate this or other decisions. I'm just glad someone is trying to care, because the default in today's world is to aggressively reject the larger picture in favor of more more more. I don't know how effective Anthropic's attempts to maintain some level of responsibility can be, but they've at least convinced me that they're trying. In the same way that OpenAI, for example, have largely convinced me that they're not. (Neither of those evaluations is absolute; OpenAI could be much worse than it is.)
Was this because they were threatened with a fine?
Seems like it, yes.
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Lotta just following orders going around in the US right now.
This isn’t just following orders. This was the government using its might to force a business to do what it wants. This should concern you.
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How is it a good thing to refuse to provide our warfighters with the tools that they need? I mean if we're going to have a military at all then we owe it to them to give them the best possible weapons systems that minimize friendly casualties. And let's not have any specious claims that LLMs are somehow special or uniquely dangerous: the US military has deployed operational fully autonomous weapons systems since the…
Why are you asking this question? You know what the answer is, you've just arbitrarily decided that it's specious in an attempt to frame rebuttals as unreasonable.
How is this article not going to even mention the recent threats to Anthropic from the Government?!