news is making the rounds that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants to use the AI software produced by Anthropic for mass surveillance and AI-controlled weapons

allegedly, Anthropic isn't willing (yet) to comply

Hegseth is threatening to isolate the company from further gov. procurement

i'm going to guess Anthropic will yield

then there will be competition over who gets to sell broken, non-deterministic software for lethal use to the US government

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/24/tech/hegseth-anthropic-ai-military-amodei

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Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah if it refuses to drop AI guardrails

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a Pentagon contract.

CNN

@catileptic The rumours I'm getting are that they are NOT going to yield... one can hope.

Of course, having AI go down in flames is _also_ good...

The Pentagon Threatens Anthropic

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@catileptic a concerning future of Ai controlled drone weapons was the topic of a short SciFi video on DUST over 6 years ago called Slaughterbots https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU
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