Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon | New details on precisely where the lines were drawn

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• myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨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…

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  • Hackworth@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The bar is so low. Anthropic is only trying to raise it every so slightly.

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    • XLE@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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    • timestatic@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Trumps ban doesn’t go in full effect until a few months from now on AFAIK

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m learning that Hegseth is getting rid of analysts and trusting the Averaging Engine to find datum that are obvious but still sound insightful to people who don’t read for fun.

  The longer I love the more wisdom I see in Tolkien’s notion that evil is self defeating. It is terrible for a time but not forever. Evil uses the most incompetent people for the job.

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s another’s Tolkien notion, one expressed by Eomer, how Rohirrim don’t lie and thus are hard to deceive.

    The concept of some insight, mystery, deeper knowledge in that context seems similar to lies for me.

    Perhaps Hegseth’s approach and tooling are enough to be as significant as the evil that Tolkien’s characters did put some effort into defeating, not waiting till it defeats itself.

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• XLE@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is such great PR for Anthropic, a company that wants to create fully autonomous weapons and endorses the Trump war machine.

  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei endorses partially autonomous weapons, and wants to build fully autonomous ones as fast as he can:

  Partially autonomous weapons… are vital to the defense of democracy. Fully autonomous weapons (those that take humans out of the loop entirely and automate selecting and engaging targets) may prove critical for our national defense. We have offered to work directly with the Department of War on R\&D to improve the reliability of these systems.

  Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters.

  Dario Amodei prides himself on being complicit:

  Anthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions. We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner.

  He believes he has a perfect track record with the Pentagon.

  To the best of our knowledge, these exceptions have not affected a single government mission to date.

  And he is apparently on the side of every American military action, from bombing fishermen to bombing Iran.

  Anthropic has supported American warfighters since June 2024 and has every intention of continuing to do so.

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• muzzle@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  archive.is/TnNq0

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