tfmOpenAI is helping the US gov to mass surveil and kill people autonomously
So Anthropic was requesting the DoW to include two (and only two) prohibited uses in their contract:
- Autonomous killing with no human involvement
- National, mass surveillance
My understanding was… that’s all Anthropic was asking for, any other use was acceptable. That’s why the deal wasn’t going through.
Now, Anthropic’s contract has ended, and the same day OpenAI is the DoW’s golden child?
Something tells me OpenAI’s contract does not have those prohibited uses in it.
Amodei said in an interview that the DoW altered their contract to appear to compromise, so that it looked like they were allowing Anthropic to have those limits. But that legalese accompanying the updates rendered that text pointless. Basically, “We won’t use Claude for domestic surveillance and full automated killing, unless we really want to.” My guess is OpenAI signed the exact same contract and just pretended not to understand the distinction.