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Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon | New details on precisely where the lines were drawn (www.theatlantic.com)
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On Friday afternoon, Anthropic learned that the Pentagon still wanted to use the company’s AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans. That could include information such as the questions you ask your favorite chatbot, your Google search history, your GPS-tracked movements, and your credit-card transactions, all of which could be cross-referenced with other details about your life. Anthropic’s leadership told Hegseth’s team that was a bridge too far, and the deal fell apart.

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[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 17 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

On Friday afternoon, Anthropic learned that the Pentagon still wanted to use the company’s AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans. That could include information such as the questions you ask your favorite chatbot, your Google search history, your GPS-tracked movements, and your credit-card transactions, all of which could be cross-referenced with other details about your life.

So that's what OpenAI will now do for them...

Anthropic had not argued that such weapons should not exist. To the contrary, the company had offered to work directly with the Pentagon to improve their reliability.

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this impasse over autonomous weapons could be resolved if the Pentagon would simply promise to keep the company’s AI in the cloud, and out of the weapons themselves.

djeez... Anthropic does not come off as nice as before

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 14 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

The bar is so low. Anthropic is only trying to raise it ever so slightly.

e: Also, the US military reportedly used Claude in Iran strikes despite Trump’s ban.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 7 points 10 hours ago

According to the Journal, US military command used [Anthropic's] tools for intelligence purposes, as well as to help select targets and carry out battlefield simulations.