The Pentagon threatens Anthropic
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The Pentagon threatens Anthropic
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#2Point 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...
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#3So the Pentagon is strongarming a company into cooperation? That reminds of how my alcoholic neighbor used to treat his family. It's almost as if someone let a mean drunk be in charge of the Pentagon.
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#4sing the "supply chain risk" designation against a domestic AI company is wild. Not sure that tool had vendors who won't rewrite their ToS on demand in mind.
Meanwhile the Pentagon could just build its own capacity. Commercial AI outspends federal science R&D 75:1 right now.
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#5Point 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...
It's just another good example of why everyone should avoid doing business with US companies.
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#6How does Hegseth believe he's going to out maneuver the company with the best "AI" on earth? Anthropic will run circles around him.
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#7Point 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...
It's just another good example of why everyone should avoid doing business with US companies.
Crazy to me that they don't expect this reaction.
Between military threats and this, are they trying to slaughter the golden geese of things the US has going for it?
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#8Imagine 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.
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#9How does Hegseth believe he's going to out maneuver the company with the best "AI" on earth? Anthropic will run circles around him.
What, Dario is just going to turn on unlimited-token-CEO-mode and ask Claude to devise a plan to out maneuver the military and intelligence services? It’s not AGI yet, and this request would be far outside the training distribution: it would just hallucinate something based on Tom Clancy novels.
Edit: typo
Re: The Pentagon threatens Anthropic
#10I 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...