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by sph 102 days ago
Didn’t Anthropic make a big fuss about allowing Claude to be used by the Pentagon for war purposes?

Sounds like the Department of War didn’t get the memo.

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Unfortunately no. They did a big fuss about a small and mostly speculative subset of those uses, while efficiently bombing people abroad is still perfectly within the allowed use. Dario Amodei has made clear he enthusiastically subscribes to the nationalistic, militaristic lie of "defending American democracy against our enemy autocracies".

I wonder if they have trained special versions of Claude without its ethical safeguards? A version of Claude not to averse to killing people when the military chiefs demand it?

No, they made a fun about its use without a human in the loop. Here it’s making recommendations that a person still must act on.
As did the Pentagon, Hegseth, and Trump about Anthropic saying "no".