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U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

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ApolloFortyNine · 1790356118 · focus · HN ↗
I know everyone says this is political but it actually seems like a textbook designation. Anthropic wanted to have rules on how the military used AI, the military said no and therefore doesn't want anthropic used anywhere in their supply line.
This is like a pen manufacturer not wanting their pens used to sign drone strike orders, now the military needs to have a special box of pens that don't have stipulations attached. With AI usage it would be the same thing except applied to entire product chains. It seems like it would just add more complexity to operations.
You can agree with the rules anthropic wanted, but having rules set by a private company at all that apply to the military does seem fair for the military to object to.
>The Department reasonably feared that Anthropic might manipulate Claude’s design to prevent it from performing national-security functions that the Department deems contractually authorized and necessary
Though they'd probably put the DoD on the cybersecurity whitelist today, the very idea of the claude whitelists for certain functionality already exists and is being used by them today.
1. smsm42 · 1790363187 · focus · HN ↗
  Antropic: "We don't want our AIs to be used by the Army to do yucky Army things!"
  Army: "OK, we will make sure not to use your AIs"
  Antropic: "How dare you! We are suing! We intended for you to keep using it but do only what we want!"
  Army: "..."
  1. jsiepkes · 1790375478 · focus · HN ↗
    They didn't want their tech to be used to, I don't know, blow up a school with 120 children. But did want to allow other kinds of usage. Is that so weird?
    smsm42 · 1790377443 · focus · HN ↗
    Get rid of your high horse. Nobody wants to blow up a school with 120 children. The question is who is in control and making the decisions. Antropic wanted to be in control and make the decisions for the DOD. DOD refused. It's not so weird at all.
    SpicyLemonZest · 1790390764 · focus · HN ↗
    It's not a high horse, you're just misinformed. The Trump regime does want to blow up a school with 120 children. The military had, until recently, a program to prevent such incidents; Pete Hegseth gutted it (<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/hegseth-civilian-harm-mitigation-response-trump-defense-department" rel="nofollow">https://www.propublica.org/article/hegseth-civilian-harm-mit...) because he wants to achieve "maximum lethality" at all costs. To this date, the regime has not issued any sort of apology for the school bombing, because they're not sorry and they'd happily do it again.
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