Is that an em-dash in his rant?
Fascist
I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
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#752Wow, and the only restrictions Anthropic asked for are (1) no mass domestic surveillance and (2) require human-in-the-loop for killing [1]. Those seem exceptionally reasonable, and even rather weak, lol :| [1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
Trump doesn't want another election to happen. He needs some powerful tools to ensure that happens, ie, massive scale ai surveillance and manipulation. Eg, like Xi uses in China. I bet anyone here he starts a war as his excuse
That's not enough. In the US, being at war doesn't cancel elections. (I mean, he may start a war, but he would need something in addition.)
Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
#753So they are such a risk to national security that no contractor that works with the federal government may use them, but they're going to keep using them for six more months? So I guess our national security is significantly at risk for the next six months?
Keep in mind that Anthropic “is the only A.I. company currently operating on the Pentagon’s classified systems” [1]. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/technology/defense-depart...
Because Palentir is using Anthropic.
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#754The disconnect here for me is, I assume the DoW and Anthropic signed a contract at some point and that contract most likely stipulated that these are the things they can do and these are the things they can't do. I would assume the original terms the DoW is now railing against were in those original contracts that they signed. In that case it looks like the DoW is acting in bad faith here, they signed the original co…
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This is an interesting perspective, but I think the fallout from sticking to his guns here is probably greater than the public blowback he would receive from serving the DoD. Without this specific sticking point, the public would know that Anthropic was serving the DoD, but not what specifically the model was being used for, and it would be difficult to prove it wasn't something relatively innocuous.
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#755Good. I'd rather not have my favorite AI from a company working on AGI to have murder and spying in it's DNA. In fact, as a patriotic American veteran, I'd be ok with Anthropic moving to Europe. It might be better for Claude and AGI, which are overriding issues for me. Rutger Bregman @rcbregman This is a huge opportunity for Europe. Welcome Anthropic with open arms. Roll out the red carpet. Visa for all employees. Eu…
AGI? My guy, it's a text predictor slot machine. Very useful tool but will never be AGI.
2021 called, they want their uninformed metaphor back.
Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
#756Earlier quoted context omitted.
No one cares if the Pentagon refuses to do business with Anthropic. But Hegseth has declared that effective immediately, no one else working with the DoD can either--which includes the companies hosting Anthropics models (Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet). So it's six months to phase out use of Anthropic at the DoD, but the people hosting the models have to stop "immediately". Which miiight impact the amount of infere…
> So it's six months to phase out use of Anthropic at the DoD, but the people hosting the models have to stop "immediately". > Which miiight impact the amount of inference the DoD would be able to get done in those six months. Which might not be by accident looking at the Truth Social posts which state "Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power…
To attempt to nationalize Anthropic. I'm sure there would be court cases filed almost immediately, restraining orders, months of cases and then appeals and then appeals of the appeals.
Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
#757it's funny that this is being framed as big tech vs us government, when in reality this move is probably strongly influenced by the desire to help openai and other big tech against anthropic
Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
#758Wow, and the only restrictions Anthropic asked for are (1) no mass domestic surveillance and (2) require human-in-the-loop for killing [1]. Those seem exceptionally reasonable, and even rather weak, lol :| [1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
I think that’s the whole idea. Anthropic didn’t ask for much so that they would look like the reasonable party.
Anthropic had these conditions in their contract from the very beginning, in contracts negotiated under Biden. It is their actual principled stance, not maneuvering.
Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
#759Wow, and the only restrictions Anthropic asked for are (1) no mass domestic surveillance and (2) require human-in-the-loop for killing [1]. Those seem exceptionally reasonable, and even rather weak, lol :| [1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
Did the DoW ask for these things? This whole thing seems like people talking past each other, and that there’s something being left unsaid. Anthropic doesn’t make a product that would assist with kill drones, and they don’t have the right to deny subpoenas.
You make a valid point. Dario suggests that DoD wants to have the capacity to do domestic surveillance and autonomous killing. Sean Parnell said the DoD doesn't want those capacities. These statements are in conflict. Them talking past each other is one possibility. Without much evidence except the track record of the Trump administration, I think it is much more likely that Sean Parnell is lying.
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#760Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does being sovereign have to do with anything in this case?
The sovereign is the ultimate authority. In the USA “we the people” delegate the sovereign power to our elected officials. They are now exercising that power in the interest of the people (they believe) that grant that power.
You're not American so it might be hard to wrap your head around, but here the "sovereign" leadership is not the ultimate authority.