We relive the last 48 hours of the future of humanity being wrestled over. The Pentagon wants to use Claude for comprehensive mass surveillance of Americans and autonomous kill-bots, and Anthropic says no. The Pentagon retaliates with extreme prejudice. With guest-star Matt.
LINKS
Washington Post summary
Anthropic’s response
Trump’s response
Hegseth’s unhinged lunacy
We Will Not Be Divided - Goggle and OpenAI employees open letter
Eliezer on the tech/govt war
Scott Alexander tweet
RSP comment
Opus3 Retirement
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