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the Pentagon's CTO has AI psychosis now. sighhhhhhhhh
The whole argument can just be countered with "if the Pentagon believes Claude is sentient and a danger to the military, then why make a deal with OpenAI to use ChatGPT, another LLM similar to Claude? Wouldn't that also be a danger of becoming sentient? and why are Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump planning to force Anthropic to comply after 6 months if they believe Claude shouldn't be in the military?? Why did you ask Anthropic to let you use Claude for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons if you believed it was sentient and a danger??"
It just reeks of bullshit. "uhm actually we made Anthropic a supply chain risk because Claude is actually very dangerous and not because we're doing banana republic shit to anyone who disagrees with us. we are a very responsible and safe government. please dont impeach trump."
I wonder if one of the reasons Pete Hegseth is going so hard after Anthropic is that he and other idiots in the Pentagon unironically believes shit like AI 2027 and so wants to soft nationalize the frontier companies so to control the coming AGI. Considering that one of the uses the DoD allegedly wants LLMs for is fully autonomous weapons that at the very least have a very distorted view of what the technology is capable of. Or they want an accountability sink so they can kill people with even less accountability. ...probably both.
I find it darkly hilarious that the doomer crit-hype is finally coming around to bite them, not in the form of heavy handed shut-it-all-down regulation to stop skynet, but in the form of authoritarian wackos wanting to make sure they are the ones "in charge" of skynet.
That is absolutely the reason, or at least part of it. See: Pete Hegseth Got His Happy Meal and how AGI-is-nigh doomers own-goaled themselves
It's possible the attempt to shove AI in every nook and cranny in the pentagon didn't especially pan out and since his face was all over that project, he's desperate for a scapegoat.
Like for sure he'd have had the logistics of the entire US army running smoothly despite layoffs by now, if it weren't for the wokies in anthropic acting up.
Reading comments cause I was bored, and had the misfortune to stumble upon this horribly formatted piece of work allegedly written by Claude