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Anthropic signed a $200 million contract with the world’s largest military and hadn’t considered if it would be used for military operations? When an article re

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• mgraczyk 7mo ago
  The contract included the agreement, and the government is now trying to change the contract, hence the disagreement
• evanb 7mo ago
  They did consider it, got a contract that affirmed that the military would be bound by the same pre-existing terms of service as every other user, and want to resist the military's pressure to renegotiate. Surely that might be naive but the entire issue is that they want to stick to the original contract, which is of course the purpose of a contract in the first place.
• sigmar 7mo ago
  >Anthropic has repeatedly asked defense officials to agree to guardrails that would restrict its AI model... also wants to ensure Claude is not used by the Pentagon for final targeting decisions in military operations without any human involvement, one source familiar with the negotiations said. Claude is not immune from hallucinations and not reliable enough to avoid potentially lethal mistakes, like unintended escalation or mission failure without human judgment, the person said. They explicitly allow it to be used in military operations, just not killing people without a human in the loop source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-anthropic-offer-ai-unrestricted-military-use-sources/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-anthropic-offer-ai-unr...