After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.
There is no Department of War, Christ this is some Idiocracy shit.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman has praised Trump and our “warfighters.”
So did Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, in a desperate attempt to please Trump.
Au contraire, I think they should be calling themselves DoW. No more “defence” BS. It is, and always has been, about war.
Billions of your money? Yeah that’s going to fund wars. War on the whole world, war on their own citizens, WAR!
It was the original name. Fuhrer Trump just doesn’t have the right to decree whatever he wants
Rare AI W
Edit: On Anthropics part I mean x)
Anthropic is still an incredibly evil company; always has been. And there’s no discernible difference between the OpenAI and Anthropic deals with the Trump administration.
Here’s a list of things Anthropic was willing to do for Trump:
- Mass surveillance of non-Americans
- Targeted surveillance of Americans
- Semi-autonomous bombings
- Fully autonomous bombings… in the future
I don’t think it’s fair to take the two items they were fighting against, and warping around the details, as a statement of acceptance, especially given how Stinky Pete wouldn’t even budge on those two.
Anthropic took a stand on a couple of guardrails, that you or I would consider to be very basic acceptable rules, but that the rest of their competition immediately lambasted, at the risk of their Pentagon contract, and even a national blacklisting that could completely take down their company. They lost, but at least they didn’t back down. And they are still at risk of being blackballed, because we live in a dictatorship where some fuckhead president can write whatever EO he wants without Congressional approval.
I’m sure as fuck ain’t going to call Dario a hero, or ignore all of the shit Anthropic did to get this far. But, I am going to call out when a company and CEO sticks their neck out in front of a crazed axe-wielding executioner, in an environment where everybody else is cowering behind the curtains and closets.
If you aren’t familiar with his actual stance, you have been told a warped version of Warfighter Dario’s vision. I can’t blame you because the media is complicit, and everybody loves a story of good guy versus bad guy, but this is the reality:
Partially autonomous weapons, like those used today in Ukraine, are vital to the defense of democracy. Fully autonomous weapons (those that take humans out of the loop entirely and automate selecting and engaging targets) may prove critical for our national defense. We have offered to work directly with the Department of War on R&D to improve the reliability of these systems.
Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters.
Dario Amodei, Warmonger
Anthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions. We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner.
Dario Amodei, Just Following Orders
