Pete Hegseth had threatened to cancel $200m contract unless it was given unfettered access to Claude model

Pete Hegseth has threatened to cancel $200m contract unless it is given unfettered access to Claude model

Anthropic said Thursday it “cannot in good conscience” comply with a demand from the Pentagon to remove safety precautions from its artificial intelligence model and grant the US military unfettered access to its AI capabilities.

The Department of Defense had threatened to cancel a $200m contract and deem Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, a designation with serious financial implications, if the company did not comply with the request by Friday.

Chief executive Dario Amodei said in a statement that the threats from the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, would not change the company’s position, and that he hoped Hegseth would “reconsider”.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    the US Declaration of Independence in 1776?

    You are only proving my point, this was from when USA was created as a democracy.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal

    Except for slaves and women, so no that is not a declaration of respect for human rights as we understand them today. But it was a start.

    But even if the meaning was good, USA no-longer respect the values of democracy. Many other democracies do.