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 drastic action, people familiar with the matter said.
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This is how all of these companies work. They’ll follow some ethical code or register as a PBC until that undermined profits.
These companies are clearly aiming at cheapening the value of white collar labor. Ask yourself: will they steward us into that era ethically? Or will they race to transfer wealth from American workers to their respective shareholders?
Then they ignored the researchers warning about what it could do, and I said nothing. It sounded like science fiction.
Then they gave it control of things that matter, power grids, hospitals, weapons, and I said nothing. It seemed to be working fine.
Then something went wrong, and no one knew how to stop it, no one had planned for it, and no one was left who had listened to the warnings.
The intention to start these pledge and conflict with DOW might be sincere, but I don’t expect it to last long, especially the company is going public very soon.
ggsp•57m ago