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by nextaccountic 28 days ago
> 2) Anthropic - in particular Dario - really needs to learn government relations better. Most of the problems Anthropic has had with the government seem to stem from Dario's attitude rather than actual facts. (Eg, the DoD debacle seems to have ended up with OpenAI signing almost the same contract Anthropic already had, just worded differently)

This may be in Anthropic's benefit. Autonomous killer drones will be widely deployed by the US military, and at that time, Anthropic can point to them and say "see, we were trying to avoid that"

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There is no money nor reputational gain to be had by saying "see, we told you so".

All that matters is the killer drones use someone else's AI first.

It may matter when recruiting though