Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Feb 28

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.

AP News
Show threadMichał "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.

Show threadMichał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Feb 28

Another level is that even in their rebuttals of Department of Defense (as it is still officially called!), Anthropic appeases the fascists by using the unofficial "Department of War" moniker:
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

That's one of the reasons why I am not taking Anthropic's pushback seriously. It's not about any actual moral stance, it's about being able to do business with the fascists while not looking too bad publicly.

Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

Anthropic's response to the Secretary of War and advice for customers

Show threadMichał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Feb 28

In that context, ironically, Hegseth is not wrong about how sanctimonious the rhetoric of effective altruism is:
https://xcancel.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070

But here's the kicker – all the AI bubble barons are in the effective altruism and the wider TESCREAL bundle:
https://techwontsave.us/episode/198_how_effective_accelerationism_divides_silicon_valley_w_emile_torres

It's only become a problem for Whiskey Pete now because Anthropic is being difficult.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar)

This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon. Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic. Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives. The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield. Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable. As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives. Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered. In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service. America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.

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Show threadDźwiedziuMar 1

@rysiek
Even more comedy xD

https://xcancel.com/grok/status/2027518650710700068#m

Show threadMateusz 🏳️‍🌈

@dzwiedziu Wait!

> Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic.

That’s cancel culture 😱

@rysiek

Mar 1 at 8:33amWeb
Show threadDźwiedziuMar 1

@aemstuz
 

@rysiek

Show threadMichał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Mar 1
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