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Trump orders US agencies to stop using Anthropic technology in clash over AI safety
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-pentagon-ai-hegseth-dario-amodei-b72d1894bc842d9acf026df3867bee8a

Would be super funny if that's what causes the bubble to start popping.

#AI #Hype #Anthropic

Trump orders all US agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI

President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. agencies to stop using Anthropic technology after the company’s unusually public dispute with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safety. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also said Friday he was designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk, a move that could prevent U.S. military vendors from working with the company. Trump’s comments Friday came just before the Pentagon’s deadline for Anthropic to allow unrestricted military use of its AI technology or face consequences. Anthropic says it will challenge the supply risk designation in court.

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Feb 28

Basically, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wants to be able to use Anthropic's AI models for things Anthropic is not comfortable with: mass domestic surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons.

Anthropic said "no". Whiskey Pete is throwing a tantrum, and Trump is supporting him in it.

This is highly entertaining on many levels.

One level is that a company peddling dangerous technology to fascists is suddenly learning the hard way how instrumentally the fascists treat them.

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Hans van Zijst Feb 28

@Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 I'm surprised nobody seems to understand that in a democracy such fundamental questions about how far a nation can go in autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, should be a matter for parliament.

This shouldn't be decided between a trigger-happy minister on one side and the director of a commercial enterprise on the other.

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Szymon Sokół 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦

@hans The US of A is no longer a democracy; hence your otherwise sound remark does not apply there.