257 – Pentagon Comes For Claude

We relive the last 48 hours of the future of humanity being wrestled over. The Pentagon wants to use Claude for comprehensive mass surveillance of Americans and autonomous kill-bots, and Anthropic says no. The Pentagon retaliates with extreme prejudice. With guest-star Matt.

LINKS
Washington Post summary
Anthropic’s response
Trump’s response
Hegseth’s unhinged lunacy
We Will Not Be Divided – Goggle and OpenAI employees open letter
Eliezer on the tech/govt war
Scott Alexander tweet
RSP comment
Opus3 Retirement

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