Kek. Nice

lib jew journalist is big mad

Anthropic’s leadership was already under some internal pressure over the deal with Palantir. Even if leadership wanted to back down here — and they have reiterated that they don’t — their employees are generally deeply invested in the company’s mission, which is at odds with training Killer ClaudeTM. Many of the rank and file literally believe that the fate of the world depends on their not doing so.

Good to know.

Another snippet from the article:

Nobody wants this

It’s hard for me to think of a single constituency that would be happy about this fiasco, and indeed, DOD’s demands are deeply underwater with every single group polled, including Trump voters — only 28% of people who voted for Trump in the last two elections were in favor.

If you hate AI, you don’t want the Pentagon to seize control of it.

If you like AI, you probably don’t want the Pentagon to profoundly damage the industry and wreck investor confidence with a sudden nationalization.

If you want AI deeply enmeshed with the Pentagon, you’re probably worried this reduces the incentive for companies to work with DOD.

If you are against AI regulation, you probably don’t love the government abruptly deciding to threaten to choke an industry leader to death for no real reason.

If you’re in favor of AI regulation, you probably didn’t want the first major regulatory action to be: “You must build a killer robot.”

If you’re afraid of killer robots, you’re probably concerned that the government is trying to force a company to let them have Skynet.

Finally, the stupidest thing about all of this is that, as I read it, Anthropic is, in fact, willing to, eventually, build killer robots. In the defense space, people have been increasingly convincing themselves that we’re going to need killer robots at some point. Wars in the near future might be fought with autonomous drone swarms; those swarms might simply not have time to check in with humans between strikes. In certain circles, “we’re going to build killer robots pretty soon” has become an accepted fact.

Maybe we should all be re-reading Revelation, for whatever good THAT will do. We seem on a high-speed ride to the end of the world.

Logical outcome of the AI arms race. Your opposition is building AI powered Terminators. Naturally you want your own AI powered Terminators. And if you don’t have your own AI powered Terminators. You’re going to get run over by the people that do.

Though. I’m not entirely convinced this isn’t pretext that’s deliberately meant to give them justification for a long overdue crackdown on the tech sector and forcibly decouple them from China. Given it’s an open secret at this point that China is essentially stealing many of their advances from U.S Tech companies. And getting back doors into U.S Systems as U.S tech companies want to save on parts and labor costs.