What anchors the reality of [whether Claude is being used for mass surveillance and/or autonomous weapons] to [the words published by Anthropic and the Pentagon]? (What stops Anthropic from folding and plausibly-deniably lying-in-ways-that-aren’t-technically-legally-lying about it?)
Mostly the prospect of leaks/whistleblowers, akin to how we first heard about the Maduro op using Claude. It’s probably a case where too many people have to be involved and general sentiment is negative enough that it would get out pretty quickly.
What anchors the reality of [whether Claude is being used for mass surveillance and/or autonomous weapons] to [the words published by Anthropic and the Pentagon]? (What stops Anthropic from folding and plausibly-deniably lying-in-ways-that-aren’t-technically-legally-lying about it?)
Mostly the prospect of leaks/whistleblowers, akin to how we first heard about the Maduro op using Claude. It’s probably a case where too many people have to be involved and general sentiment is negative enough that it would get out pretty quickly.