Ugh. "Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge."https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/

[petersuber@fediscience.org]

Ugh. "Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge."
https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/

It's not yet clear what this means for the high-stakes negotiation between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Two of the Anthropic sticking points have been that Claude not be used for "mass surveillance or autonomous weapons systems that can use AI to kill people without human input."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/24/anthropic-claude-military-ai

#AI #Anthropic #Claude #Hegseth #LLMs #Pentagon #USPol #USPolitics

[vam103@mathstodon.xyz]

@petersuber

It looks like money and falling behind competitors seems to be a big motivation here...

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/pentagon_threatens_anthropic/

#AI #Anthropic #Claude #Hegseth #LLMs #Pentagon #USPol #USPolitics

[petersuber@fediscience.org]

Update. #Anthropic just 𝗿𝗲𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 #Pentagon demands to remove safeguards on #Claude that limit its use in mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Here's the statement from CEO #DarioAmodei.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war

#AI #LLMs

[mike@sauropods.win]

@petersuber That's nice. But there are of course no such safeguards, bewcause they are fundamentally impossible to implement in a system that has no concept of "harm", or of anything.

Still, I suppose it shows willing.

[petersuber@fediscience.org]

Update. "#SamAltman says #OpenAI shares #Anthropic's red lines in #Pentagon fight."
https://archive.is/5sTBa

#AI #LLMs #Claude #ChatGPT

[tessarakt@mastodon.social]

@petersuber They can't even get the name of that department right. It's called the "Department of Defense".

[petersuber@fediscience.org]

Update. Employees of #Google and #OpenAi just released an open letter supporting #Anthropic.
https://notdivided.org/

"We hope our leaders will put aside their differences and stand together to continue to refuse the Department of War's current demands for permission to use our models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing people without human oversight."

The letter welcomes new signatures from past and present employees of Google and OpenAI.

At the time of this post, it had 684 signatures.

#AI #LLMs #ChatGPT #Claude #Gemini

[gotofritz@hachyderm.io]

@petersuber

I applaud their courage, sadly I fear that's 684 candidates for the next round of layoffs