Pete Hegseth had threatened to cancel $200m contract unless it was given unfettered access to Claude model

Pete Hegseth has threatened to cancel $200m contract unless it is given unfettered access to Claude model

Anthropic said Thursday it “cannot in good conscience” comply with a demand from the Pentagon to remove safety precautions from its artificial intelligence model and grant the US military unfettered access to its AI capabilities.

The Department of Defense had threatened to cancel a $200m contract and deem Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, a designation with serious financial implications, if the company did not comply with the request by Friday.

Chief executive Dario Amodei said in a statement that the threats from the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, would not change the company’s position, and that he hoped Hegseth would “reconsider”.

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
    29·
    16 hours ago

    To summarize, “Using AI for mass spying is fine so long as it’s not Americans being spied on. Using AI to murder with no oversight or accountability is also fine, but only when it’s not Americans.”

    This is not the win that people are making it out to be. This is heinous.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      41·
      15 hours ago

      USA has absolutely zero respect for the rights of people in or from other countries.
      This was also evident in how Obama explained the “balance” of US surveillance.
      It is also evident in how USA spies on allied top politicians. The might makes right mentality in USA is disgusting.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 hours ago

        USA has absolutely zero respect for the rights of people in or from other countries.

        Your statement isn’t wrong, but you could substitute any powerful nation in the place of “USA” today or throughout history and the statement would be correct too. Geopolitics is really really ugly if you peal back the thin veneers of soft power and diplomacy on top.