Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, has said he does not want the company’s A.I. to be used to surveil Americans or in autonomous weapons, saying this could “undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth labeled the start-up a “supply chain risk,” a move that would sever ties between the company and the U.S. government.
Anthropic’s unwillingness to accede shows how the Department of Defense cannot easily force Silicon Valley firms to comply. Unlike defense contractors that have worked with the Pentagon for decades and are reliant on longstanding military contracts, the A.I. companies are contending with different internal pressures and external factors.
that is indeed in this very article. please read the last paragraphs
That is a very misleading title for the article. It’s basically a short timeline of the DoD doing its table flip.
Half the article seems to be trying to make the point that these AI providers aren’t jumping to support the DoD with logic that basically amounts to “Even though Google ran to rename to the Gulf of America, there are some rank and file engineers that say they don’t like this” with a couple of companies treated that way. The article’s thesis, for me at least, is a massive shrug until more pushback is seen from these companies.
No shit. That’s been true of most of their companies complicity. I was pretty vocal about early actions it was just less headline grabbing and my voice wasn’t going to do shit to change the company’s actions. The argument that this situation is any different is pretty precariously made in the article.
The content, for me, is also still pretty lacking on n