BallyMKudos to Anthropic for holding the line
Daniel QuinnI caution against the enthusiasm here. As I understand it, the complaint wasn’t that Anthropic didn’t want to make autonomous weapons so much as that they wanted to retain control over the systems once they were sold to the government.
No reasonable government should allow corporate control over their military assets, and frankly, I trust Anthropic with control over weapons even less than I trust the Trump administration.
Good discussion of this on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473
I haven’t read anyone say that it was about retaining the IP. Anthropic says, and others agree, that it would be totally irresponsible to use current frontier AI systems for lethal autonomous weapon systems – even if you think that LAWS are okay. Current AI systems are far too error-prone.
See www.anthropic.com/…/statement-department-of-war and anthropic.com/…/statement-comments-secretary-war
Good discussion of this on HN:
lol never.
No reasonable government should allow corporate control over their military assets
Pretty sure the entire MIC is privately owned and operated by capital for capital.