[navaed01]

To play devils advocate - why should a government supplier and private company (Anthropic) and 1 man there - get to decide what an organization with elected officials can and can’t do? Dario has no idea of threats facing the US and where national security needs to go. Dario has personal views on weapons and surveillance- that’s fine but national defense tactics by their nature is something many people are uncomfortable with.

[gck1]

Claude is Anthropic's property which they rent to the government. Is there any other place where rental agreements don't come with clauses on how the property can and can't be used?

[digitalPhonix]

You have a car (I assume, replace “car” with whatever else if not).

The government asks if they can rent your car. I hope we agree that you don’t have to say yes. (Specific exceptions exist to places of lodging etc.)

Anthropic is exercising their right to say no in the same way.

[hyttioaoa]

He doesn't get to decide that. But he can decide what he wants to do, just as you can decide what to do with your time and resources.

Also, that very much sounds like the government knows best and citizens should just trust it unconditionally.

[aprilthird2021]

> why should a government supplier and private company (Anthropic) and 1 man there - get to decide what an organization with elected officials can and can’t do?

Misunderstanding of what is happening. They have terms and conditions with their private property that anyone can choose to accept or decline. The DoD wants to them turn around and say these terms for a private company's contract around licensing of their private property are so egregious that the government and all government contract holders should be forced out of using any products by that company