Pentagon's Dispute with Anthropic's Ethics

Pentagon is pushing Anthropic for full capabilities of its models without any guardrails or else it will be put into a government supply blacklist and possibly be forced into submission via the "Defense Production Act" of cold-war era. 

Anthropic currently disallows the use of its technology against mass surveillance of humans and in lethal force without human judgement. It has until Friday to give Pentagon full access or suffer the consequences. It's not clear whether the other AI companies have complied already or maybe the Pentagon specifically prefers Anthropic's models as seen in Maduro's capture.

Since the ultimatum, Anthropic has already dropped its safety pledge of not training models smarter than what it can safely control. The development over the next few days will decide AI safety rules.

• Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon

• Anthropic has less than 36 hours before it barrels toward uncharted territory with the US government

• Exclusive: Congress urged to probe Pentagon-Anthropic clash

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