Given the general behavior of the current administration, what’s the probability that this move is principally extractive, i.e. a demand that Anthropic pony up a bribe?
It seems weird for this situation to be resolved by Anthropic offering a bribe but not to change its terms of service. My sense is that Hegseth actually wants an anti-woke, strong military and wouldn’t be satisfied with a bribe.
Agreed that it doesn’t read to me as extractive, though I could certainly be wrong. Aren’t lawsuits usually the Trump administration’s usual first step on extractive moves?
My sense is that Hegseth actually wants an anti-woke, strong military
It would seem strange to me to consider limitations on mass domestic surveillance / autonomous lethal weapons as ‘woke’, since they’re unrelated to DEI etc. That doesn’t necessarily mean that Hegseth isn’t considering them woke, but it would mean they’ve started to use the term to mean something substantially broader — is it your sense that they have?
I don’t think this is ‘woke’ exactly, just that Hegseth has a vision for what the military should be like which is incompatible with Anthropic applying ethical judgement. If Anthropic refuses to surveil Americans, they might push back on other things in the future, and are at especially high risk of refusing to do illegal things Hegseth wants them to. Hegseth thinks generals should be physically strong men who don’t take Harvard classes; likewise, contractors should obey orders and not question their ethics.
Given the general behavior of the current administration, what’s the probability that this move is principally extractive, i.e. a demand that Anthropic pony up a bribe?
It seems weird for this situation to be resolved by Anthropic offering a bribe but not to change its terms of service. My sense is that Hegseth actually wants an anti-woke, strong military and wouldn’t be satisfied with a bribe.
Agreed that it doesn’t read to me as extractive, though I could certainly be wrong. Aren’t lawsuits usually the Trump administration’s usual first step on extractive moves?
It would seem strange to me to consider limitations on mass domestic surveillance / autonomous lethal weapons as ‘woke’, since they’re unrelated to DEI etc. That doesn’t necessarily mean that Hegseth isn’t considering them woke, but it would mean they’ve started to use the term to mean something substantially broader — is it your sense that they have?
I don’t think this is ‘woke’ exactly, just that Hegseth has a vision for what the military should be like which is incompatible with Anthropic applying ethical judgement. If Anthropic refuses to surveil Americans, they might push back on other things in the future, and are at especially high risk of refusing to do illegal things Hegseth wants them to. Hegseth thinks generals should be physically strong men who don’t take Harvard classes; likewise, contractors should obey orders and not question their ethics.