Derik K

This is what I currently believe to be the case and am advocating internally to release more information about as soon as feasible. If we later learn this is not the case, then I will advocate internally to terminate the contract.

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.

annie being annie, now in the news lmao