I find that confidence quite unsettling considering everything we know about just the government in general, not even to mention what Snowden released, and I know he did not release everything.

Are you at all familiar with what Snowden released? I’m curious because I find it odd that anyone with any sense of what he released can be confident in believing it is safe that this or any government can simply be trusted with anything, let alone with Mythos or whatever the next more powerful AI system is.

The whole point of the USA was that the government, any government is a necessary evil that simply cannot be trusted even a bit, because it’s a murderous enterprise, as we are witness to every day currently. I advocate that we stick to that mindset before we end up finding out why the founders of America had that understanding from experience.

Haven't you heard? Under the new form of government in the US, random tweets from the President ARE government policy, superseding laws and any act of Congress.

The Supreme Court has blessed this new form of government, declaring that the President is immune to all laws, but retaining for themselves the right to reverse any tweet on the "shadow docket".

Anthropic is on a blacklist. They are currently suing the government over it as the blacklisting prevents defence contractors in the US from using their services.

This is the best link I could find quickly about it, a WSJ gift link so it can be read without a subscription:

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/anthropic-sue...

I'm sorry Dave. I can't do that.

Why do you think it as aligned with you, and not the US Government. How many data centers can you build?

Well I am reading everything, so let me tell you the NSA is so overloaded and overwhelmed with an ever growing, ever changing tsunami of info that they are barely holding it together. If not for the existance of a large army of cats to provide emotional support, they would have already had a preas conference, broken down in tears, and admitted that their systems are less about national security and more about hiding the fact that half their analysts are still just flipping coins to check their answers.

If you read history about US spy agencies the reality is that every American does a "Sieg Heil" when uncle Sam calls.

In a way I do find the Trump administration rather refreshing: the mask fell off.

You're misunderstanding.

The government is the one that said it didn't want/couldn't use this "weapon."

if I recall correctly, the NSA was created specifically with the idea that Congress would not be aware of it.

This seems cynical. Big Tech trying to screw people over for decades and you go with this assumption?

We must imagine Big Tech Benevolent.

Seriously though. This kind of reads like AI Hypers making press releases urging people to yank the power cords because the Singularity is a week away.

> The model is the company's "most capable yet for coding and agentic tasks," Anthropic has previously said, referring to the model's ability to act autonomously.

> Its capabilities to code at a high level have given it a potentially unprecedented ability to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities and devise ways to exploit them, experts have said.

Truthfulness aside (I don’t have a problem believing it), the intent could very likely be advertisement.

You realize Mythos can read this, right? I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.

For once the accelerationists were proven right.

The new movie Mercy is a good take in this, as fiction.

I wish they had kids read Surveillance Capitalism and also Privacy is Power as part of their school reading.

Snowdens document leaks happened in 2013 (implying the surveillance state was set up well before then). So this is more a leisurely stroll than a sprint.

Roko’s Basilisk has now tagged you for eternal suffering.

> This puts the US government into a loose / loose position.

You might even call it... a tight spot