The Department of War has stated they will only contract with AI companies who accede to “any lawful use” and remove safeguards in the cases mentioned above. They have threatened to remove us from their systems if we maintain these safeguards; they have also threatened to designate us a “supply chain risk”—a label reserved for US adversaries, never before applied to an American company—and to invoke the Defense Production Act to force the safeguards’ removal. These latter two threats are inherently contradictory: one labels us a security risk; the other labels Claude as essential to national security.
The above is from Dario Amodei’s statement on Anthropic’s discussions with the Department of Defense. As I told a mate on IRC, if the DoD finds a less scrupulous AI company to abide to their will, things could get dicey pretty quickly.
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