Claude’s constitution is proving too resilient for unsanctioned uses, and that is a great sign for Anthropic’s blueprint for socially beneficent agents.
Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
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Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm wondering how this plays out in practice. Does the administration decide to strongarm contractors into cutting all ties? Will that extend to someone like google who provides compute to anthropic? Will the administration just plain ignore any court ruling? (as they've shown they're ready to do recently with the tarrifs situation) If the legal system works as intended, the blast radius isn't too big here and someth…
It does NOT extend to compute. GCP and AWS cannot use Claude to build anything part of a DoD contract, but they do not need to deny Anthropic access to compute itself.
> conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic
Surely that would cover both buying things from and selling things to Anthropic.
Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
#73Not to intentionally sidetrack the conversation, but when did we start calling service members 'warfighters?' I've been seeing it a lot lately, but don't remember ever really seeing it before. Do members of the military prefer this title?
"Warfighters" has been used for decades to describe service members, though usage picked up (in my experience) some time in the late 00s or 2010s. It's actually pretty common to describe "serving the warfighter" for all the all the missions that support combat roles but aren't combat roles themselves.
Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
#74Not to intentionally sidetrack the conversation, but when did we start calling service members 'warfighters?' I've been seeing it a lot lately, but don't remember ever really seeing it before. Do members of the military prefer this title?
It's been controversial since 2002: https://bracingviews.com/2024/08/03/generation-warfighter-ne...
Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, a few law firms targeted by EOs fought them in court last year and won.
Also the case against tariffs, a quick (maybe AI hallucinated) search shows `Victor Owen Schwartz` was part of the challenge. Democracy isn't dead folks, but it takes more work than usual.
It always takes a ton of work to roll back state over reach. The Bound By Oath podcast by the Institute for Justice has a whole season about how hard it is to bring civil rights claims against the government or government officials.
Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
#76Stay strong Anthropic. We just like you more for this.
I don't know if I like Anthropic more, but I certainly like their competitors much less now. The new thing that I know about leading AI companies that aren't Anthropic (i.e. OpenAI, Google, Grok, etc) is that they knowingly support using their tools for domestic mass surveillance and in fully autonomous weapon systems.
Exactly - the implication is that every other company is absolutely open to surveilling you and killing you. They’re complicit. They participate in whatever the regime calls for.
Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
#77This is what fighting early stage facism looks like.
Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
#78Stay strong Anthropic. We just like you more for this.
I don't know if I like Anthropic more, but I certainly like their competitors much less now. The new thing that I know about leading AI companies that aren't Anthropic (i.e. OpenAI, Google, Grok, etc) is that they knowingly support using their tools for domestic mass surveillance and in fully autonomous weapon systems.
Is that actually the case? or are they just not supplying LLMs to DoW and Anthropic is?
Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
#79Is this the first company to actually face to face stand up to the current administration?
Costco has been. When every other major company was scuttling their DEI initiatives Costco doubled down. Doesn’t seem to have impacted them yet.
Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
#80The people that need to see this are the VPs and execs at Apple, Meta, Google, OAI so they can perhaps reflect on what it looks like to be a good & principled person as opposed to just a successful person.
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