I know many people working in tech companies who already use frontier LLMs to do tasks that interns would previously do. Most of the economic value of course still lies in the future. I wonder if there is a canonical source explaining these things. Perhaps the METR plot?
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This kind of decapitation policy was practiced by JSOC for many years before against terorrist organizations. What’s relatively new here is doing it against a legitimized nation-state.
Mr. Michael, who was on a call with Anthropic executives at the time, said the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data, people briefed on the negotiations said.
Anthropic told the Pentagon that it was willing to let its technology be used by the National Security Agency for classified material collected under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. But the company wanted a legally binding promise from the Pentagon not to use its technology on unclassified commercial data.
At that point, Mr. Michael asked to speak with Dr. Amodei, who was not on the call. Mr. Michael was turned down. Shortly after, Mr. Hegseth said the talks were over.
I’m surprised that there aren’t many high-volume prediction markets about the resolution of the Anthropic/DoW situation going forward. The only relevant one I found was this on IPO.
I seriously doubt that they were under misconceptions as to what Anthropic’s position was.
The capability to lobby using control over capital, in turn apportioned by economic productivity, seems like a kind of third column in the legislature?