Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth today, as the Pentagon threatens the AI company with what could amount to a government blacklist.
At issue is the guardrails Anthropic placed on its AI models. The Pentagon, which has a $200 million contract with Anthropic, wants the company to lift its restrictions for the military to be able to use the model for “all lawful use,” according to a source familiar with the discussions.
But Anthropic has concerns over two issues that it isn’t willing to drop, the source said: AI-controlled weapons and mass domestic surveillance of American citizens. According to a source familiar, Anthropic believes AI is not reliable enough to operate weapons and no laws or regulations yet that cover how AI could be used in mass surveillance.
If the fascists don’t like it, Anthropic must be doing something right.
If people would instead use the term “Text generator” instead of “AI”, boomers like Hegseth would understand that the military is not its use case
“Text generator to”
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Identify the next target to attack
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Justify the latest military operation to the press
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Induce a panic in Congress to get the Pentagon more money
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Lie about how the latest military engagement is going
Seems to fulfill all the basic responsibilities of a modern Secretary of
DefenseOffense. Why do we even need Hegseth at all? Hell, why do we need the Joint Chiefs? Just direct all future queries to the GenAI.mil platform. We can scrape every bureaucrat over the rank of Major with this thing.-
Text vomiter would be even more accurate
Anthropic believes AI is not reliable enough to operate weapons
something something walk or drive to the car wash something something
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But why the crab cakes? The rest of it makes sense, but… what?
Then let me ask, how would you reach quorum with a loose group in the south? It’s guns or fried food, for me.
Anyone else have “SkyNet released” on their 2026 bingo card?
