Ben Rossen

There is this narrative that up until this week, Anthropic had this wonderful contract that prevented the U.S. government from doing mass domestic surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons, and now all hell will break lose. As I wrote, I am not a fan of accelerating AI specifically in the national security space. If I had been an Anthropic employee at the time they signed their original deal with the DoW, I would have probably opposed it, especially given the reduced control since they worked through Palantir. And I don't think having some terms of use in the contract is what we can rely on to protect us. I believe the drama of the last week about these terms of use is more about politics than substance. The substance is about the details, which I hope more of which will come out soon. But it is wrong to present the OAI contract as if it is the same deal than Anthropic rejected, or even as if it is less protective of the red lines than the deal Anthropic already had in place before. Obviously I don't know all details of what Anthropic had before, but based on what I know, it is quite likely that the contract OAI signed gives *more* guarantees of no usage of models for mass domestic surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons than Anthropic ever had.

Update: From today's mtg between Hegseth and Amodei, Axios reported an ultimatum of Friday evening: Pentagon "will either cut ties and declare Anthropic a 'supply chain risk,' or invoke the Defense Production Act to force the company to tailor its model to the military's needs."

AI is already doing better writing than most sitcoms 😂 Prompt "Trump walks in on an episode of Seinfeld"

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The 2nd amendment is not for hunting, it is not for self protection It is there to ensure that free people can defend themselves if god forbid government became tyrannical and turned against its citizens