Now that war with Iran has actually started, I feel that this must have also been a factor in how Trump 2.0 tackled the situation with Anthropic. If Anthropic really did express misgivings about the use of Claude in the capture of Venezuela’s Maduro, the Pentagon must have been concerned about what Anthropic could get up to during a war with Iran, a far larger operation.
I have no understanding of where and how frontier AI is playing a role in this war, but I wonder if any agency involved has already switched from Claude to “WarGPT”? I have yet to use an interface like OpenClaw, but I would guess that it’s pretty easy to change the model you’re using. Maybe it’s only hard to change over, if you’re using a finetuned model like a custom GPT.
If your have an agent that’s works, you wouldn’t want to switch it’s model and get potentially more bugs right in the moment you start a war. The alternative models like the open sourced models from Meta that they have are likely worse than the frontier models they access from Anthropic and there might be performance degradation that you don’t want to discover the moment you are waging war.
I would expect that the generals who are actually using the technology don’t like it when they are told from above that they have to now start the 6-month process of moving off them when they would rather focus on the war.
Now that war with Iran has actually started, I feel that this must have also been a factor in how Trump 2.0 tackled the situation with Anthropic. If Anthropic really did express misgivings about the use of Claude in the capture of Venezuela’s Maduro, the Pentagon must have been concerned about what Anthropic could get up to during a war with Iran, a far larger operation.
I have no understanding of where and how frontier AI is playing a role in this war, but I wonder if any agency involved has already switched from Claude to “WarGPT”? I have yet to use an interface like OpenClaw, but I would guess that it’s pretty easy to change the model you’re using. Maybe it’s only hard to change over, if you’re using a finetuned model like a custom GPT.
If your have an agent that’s works, you wouldn’t want to switch it’s model and get potentially more bugs right in the moment you start a war. The alternative models like the open sourced models from Meta that they have are likely worse than the frontier models they access from Anthropic and there might be performance degradation that you don’t want to discover the moment you are waging war.
I would expect that the generals who are actually using the technology don’t like it when they are told from above that they have to now start the 6-month process of moving off them when they would rather focus on the war.