blog post on Thursday,<\/a> Amodei wrote: \u201cI believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.\u201d\n <\/p>\n\n Amodei said Anthropic understands that the Pentagon, \u201cnot private companies, makes military decisions.\u201d But \u201cin a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.\u201d He also said use cases like mass surveillance and autonomous weapons are \u201coutside the bounds of what today\u2019s technology can safely and reliably do.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Anthropic\u2019s two exceptions have not slowed \u201cadoption and use of our models within our armed forces to date,\u201d Amodei added.\n <\/p>\n
\n Amodei said the Pentagon\u2019s \u201cthreats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but has previously said their issue has nothing to do with mass surveillance or autonomous weapons. \u201cWe will not let ANY company dictate the terms regarding how we make operational decisions,\u201d Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell posted on X on Thursday.\n <\/p>\n
\n After Amodei\u2019s post published, Anthropic staffers began publicly expressing support for their employer.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cTime and time again over my three year tenure at Anthropic I\u2019ve seen us stand to our values in ways that are often invisible from the outside. This is a clear instance where it is visible,\u201d Trenton Bricken, a member of Anthropic\u2019s technical team for alignment, wrote on X.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201c[H]istory is unfolding in front of us it\u2019s now obvious and evident to everyone with eyes to see why anthropic founding was a crucial fork in the timeline, and how catastrophic the counterfactual would\u2019ve been otherwise,\u201d wrote Gian Segato, a data science manager at Anthropic.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic is rejecting the Pentagon\u2019s latest offer to change their contract, saying the changes do not satisfy the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-502113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}