At 5:01 p.m. Friday, the Pentagon may be at war. I’m not referring to Iran, nor to any other shooting war — but a potentially existential conflict between two parties, nonetheless: The artificial intelligence company Anthropic and the Department of Defense are fighting over the contractual terms for its continued use of Anthropic’s A.I. model.
Anthropic is insisting that the government agree to specific restrictions that would prevent the use of its model to conduct widespread surveillance of Americans or to control autonomous weapons like drones without a human in what is called the “kill chain.” The company reiterated on Thursday that it has no intention to change its position. The government says that the only requirement its contractors can insist on is that their products be used lawfully.
The above excerpt was originally published in The New York Times.
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