The Pentagon also warned to invoke the Defense Production Act on Anthropic, a threat that Amodei says is contradictory to the department's prior "supply-chain risk" labeling. Under this act, any private company in the U.S. can be forced to prioritize serving the government because its products are deemed too important for national security .
Anthropic seems unfazed by either threat and urges the DoD to reconsider its position. In the likely case the federal contract is pulled, Anthropic will still "work to enable a smooth transition to another provider" to avoid disruptions in military operations. This is the first time an AI outfit has taken such a concrete stance against the current administration, and the reaction has been largely positive in online circles .
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Notton "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to label the company a supply-chain risk, a designation reserved for adversarial outfits that has never been put on an American company before." I believe that's called blackmailing. Reply
bigdragon Haven't creators written dozens of successful novels, filmed many big budget movies, and produced countless short form contents describing where AI with tracking and monitoring capabilities leads? Eagle Eye, Captain America Winter Soldier, iRobot, The Tower (1993), 2001 Space Odyssey, and more. Sure, they're fictional, but that doesn't stop someone from finding out if the fictional stories can become non-fiction reality if they're not careful. Reply
Blastomonas Good on Anthropic. An unusually principled stance for an AI company. Reply
bit_user I'm so glad they didn't cave! They just immediately became my favorite AI company. Reply
SmokyBarnable A company that is already deep in US military violence – Anthropic aided the kidnapping of the Venezuelan president, for example – doesn’t deserve anyone’s warm fuzzzies. Reply
thestryker I'm mostly surprised that they actually stood by their own policies. I imagine that the government is up in arms because Anthropic's systems are better than the competition as one can be sure there are no such limits coming from xAI. Reply
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