AXIOS, a US media outlet, reported today: Recently, the US Secretary of War, Hegseth, summoned the CEO of the AI company Anthropic, Amodei, to the Pentagon, and the meeting was very intense.
The Pentagon directly made it clear to Anthropic: this was a "comply or get out" ultimatum. Claude is the only AI running on the military's classified system, and the Pentagon demanded that the security ethics restrictions be removed. Anthropic clearly refused two requests:
• Mass surveillance of US citizens
• Development of autonomous lethal weapons
Now the Pentagon threatens to classify Anthropic as a supply chain risk company, which will directly destroy its related contracts and force all defense contractors to stop using Claude. Hegseth will issue an ultimatum to Amodei tomorrow morning.
Comments: The US government talks about AI ethics and human rights freedom on one hand, and forces technology companies to give up their bottom lines, allowing the military to have access to surveillance and autonomous killing weapons. If you don't comply, they will directly block and destroy you, treating commercial companies as obedient tools. It seems to be maintaining national security, but in reality, it is using power to trample on technological ethics, sacrificing the privacy and basic bottom lines of its own citizens at will, fully exposing the nature of power supremacy and no limits.
Original: toutiao.com/article/1857966932119561/
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