Pete Hegseth has threatened to cancel $200m contract unless it is given unfettered access to Claude model
Anthropic said Thursday it “cannot in good conscience” comply with a demand from the Pentagon to remove safety precautions from its artificial intelligence model and grant the US military unfettered access to its AI capabilities.
The Department of Defense had threatened to cancel a $200m contract and deem Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, a designation with serious financial implications, if the company did not comply with the request by Friday.
Chief executive Dario Amodei said in a statement that the threats from the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, would not change the company’s position, and that he hoped Hegseth would “reconsider”.
Rape as a method of power is a tiny tiny tiny part/tool of geopolitics at the nation state level. Almost too small mention. The same original statement is the rationale for colonization of the Carrebean/Americas/Africa by European powers in the 15th century and beyond as just an example.
I know I know but just for the people in the back who can’t get the complexity of a system that incentivizes infighting of other countries to reduce their population numbers willingly by enslaving and weakening their outward defenses till they can be sacked for anything left of value after their people are gone and used as labor…
Raping children still looks pretty bad and is real simple to realize that as a bargaining and power ritual of the wealthy/ruling, maybe the complicated stuff they do is horrible too.