Hegseth to Anthropic: Nice company you got there…

[89th]

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war

[Horace]

OpenAI is in negotiations with the DoD to take over for Anthropic. I hope the "supply chain risk" threat is just negotiation hot air. I suspect it will prove to be, but who knows.

In the letter, Anthropic acknowledges that the law is currently ambiguous to non-existent. Their concerns are ethical rather than (currently) legal, and I think the DoD is well within its duties to find a vendor who will not impose their own ethical constraints.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

Now it’s the Defense Production Act.

Hegseth can’t decide if Anthropic is a risk to national security or essential to national security.

[mark]

We have very dangerous idiots running our country.

[jon-nyc]

[Axtremus]

Srsly, the alternative would have done better than this.

[Renauda]

@Axtremus said in Hegseth to Anthropic: Nice company you got there…:

Srsly, the alternative would have done better than this.

As would the county dog catcher.

[xenon]

Unmitigated idiocy at the helm.

[Horace]

The threat to classify Anthropic as a supply chain threat is idiotic. The conflicting motivations of a company that brands itself with the highest ethical standards, but who want to provide cutting edge technology to the DoD, seems reasonable and even inevitable.

[Axtremus]

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-bans-anthropic-government-use-rcna261055

... “OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X Friday night that the company had struck a deal with the Department of Defense to deploy its models on the department’s classified networks.”

[jon-nyc]