Steve HermanFeb 26
Anthropic draws a line in the sand — stating it won’t allow DoD to use its AI technology for mass domestic surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons. https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

Show threadClickyMcTicker
@newsguyusa They’re going to get caught in one year helping DoD with this.
Feb 26 at 11:57pmWeb
Show threadcroutonFeb 27
@ClickyMcTicker @newsguyusa i don't think i will give anthropic benefit of the doubt - anthropic wants their hands to be publicly clean, I have no illusions that they would give the US DOD exactly what they want behind closed doors, if enough $ and legal waivers are offered.
Show threadKynxFeb 27

@crouton @ClickyMcTicker @newsguyusa I’m not quite so cynical. Sure it’s PR: it’s a press release. But they did say no and damn the consequences.

My guess: they walked into the meeting with Hesgeth hoping to extract gov’t money to make their killing machines infallible. An impossible task, but lucrative in the meantime. Hesgeth is nuts. He wants to kill _now_. They decided that wouldn’t do them any good at all.

Maybe not moral, but sensible.