Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah if it refuses to drop AI guardrails | CNN Business
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a Pentagon contract.

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.

  • tired_n_bored@lemmy.world
    19·
    10 hours ago

    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

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 hours ago

      “Text generator to”

      • Identify the next target to attack

      • Justify the latest military operation to the press

      • Induce a panic in Congress to get the Pentagon more money

      • Lie about how the latest military engagement is going

      Seems to fulfill all the basic responsibilities of a modern Secretary of Defense Offense. 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.