As the “Are We the Baddies?” meme suggests. If you’re a country’s military, in a democracy, that wants to carry out mass civilian surveillance and use killer robots, maybe you’re the one with the problem. Anthropic can be as principled as they like, there are plenty who’ll be happy to help - Peter Thiel’s Palantir is eager and enthusiastic about implementing this agenda.
It’s depressing that none of the other Big Tech firms have any scruples about this.
Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
A thing I really did not expect to say… Good job Anthropic? Are they really taking a stance based on morality?
Anthropic was founded with the supposed goal of creating ethical or safe AI. Now one could argue that working with a body that conducts warfare is already unethical, but it is refreshing to see someone take a stand at least.
The real news is somebody is going to win that contract.
And my bet is that the company who does, is not going to be all open about it.
