Anthropic's safety-first ethos collided with The Pentagon

Anthropic's safety-first ethos collided with The Pentagon(scientificamerican.com)

5 points by lonelyasacloud 85 days ago | 5 comments

lyaocean 85 days ago |

Real tension here is governance, not model quality. If the Pentagon wants "all lawful purposes," vendors need contract-level guardrails: explicit prohibited uses, independent audit logs, and kill-switch rights. Otherwise "safety-first" is mostly branding.

lonelyasacloud 85 days ago |

From the article ...

Anthropic has drawn two red lines: no mass surveillance of Americans and no fully autonomous weapons ... OpenAI, Google and xAI—have agreed to loosen safeguards ... Pentagon has demanded that AI be available for “all lawful purposes.”

DivingForGold 85 days ago | |

I predict (Kalshi ?) that Anthropic will ultimately be ejected from the Pentagon running. Morals and ethics be damned, all the others will likely tell their workers: any that don't agree, they will be escorted out the door if they don't like it. Corporate America. Just wait for the next genocidal operation where A I is found contributing to the mass murdering. Cuba ?

hdtx54 85 days ago | | |

There is a another more interesting outcome where AI tells the Pentagon everything the Pentagon does is mostly pointless and can be shutdown. This is when the fun starts.

ungreased0675 85 days ago |

This seems to mostly be about the Pentagon sticking to the principle of not allowing a private corporation tell them what they can or can’t do.