[Opinion] Anthropic’s fight with the Pentagon shows how AI could threaten a crucial safeguard of democracy
Anthropic says the military should not use its AI for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance, and a judge has blocked enforcement of the dispute.
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Anthropic’s fight with the Pentagon shows how AI could threaten a crucial safeguard of democracy
In February, the United States Department of Defense threatened to designate the AI firm Anthropic a “supply-chain risk” after a dispute over the military’s use of the company’s Claude models. This designation would not only put the company’s $200 million Pentagon contract at risk, but would require all defence contractors to cut ties with the company. At the centre of the dispute were two uses that Anthropic said it would not permit: fully auto…
On Monday (August 17), the CEO of defense technology startup Smack said that the Pentagon's accelerated demand for artificial intelligence (AI) is driving the company's new round of funding; coupled with the supply chain crisis at Anthropic, these startups have become hot commodities in the AI industry.
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