Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon
www.theatlantic.com
New details on precisely where the lines were drawn

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.

  • myrmidexAEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.

    …

    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

      • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
        11·
        2 days 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.

        • SleeplessCityLights@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          13 hours ago

          Does Claude even have enough spacial awareness to be useful? Sifting through human text is what LLMs do best but not anything that requires a lot of spacial awareness.