Anthropic refuses Pentagon’s new terms, standing firm on lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance

Less than 24 hours earlier the deadline successful an ultimatum issued by the Pentagon, Anthropic has refused the Department of Defense's demands for unrestricted entree to its AI.

It's the culmination of a melodramatic exchange of nationalist statements, societal media posts, and behind-the-scenes negotiations, coming down to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's tendency to renegotiate each AI labs' existent contracts with the military. But Anthropic, truthful far, has refused to backmost down from its 2 existent reddish lines: nary wide surveillance of Americans, and nary lethal autonomous weapons (or weapons with licence to termination targets with nary quality oversight whatsoever). OpenAI …

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