A: We are not going to allow the use of this tool for evil and weaponize it
G-men: If you don’t we will use the two words you don’t want to hear
A: What?
G-men: National Security
A: OK you win
>Anthropic, the wildly successful AI company that has cast itself as the most safety-conscious of the top research labs, is dropping the central pledge of its flagship safety policy, company officials tell TIME.
oasis48 on
Our tech overlords are just soulless husks of people consumed by greed. None of these people apparently have any ethics or morals they won’t sell out at the drop of a hat for more money or power no matter what it means for everyone else.
MediumMachineGun on
virtues of capitalism, everyone.
Majik_Sheff on
I’m sure nothing catastrophic will come from this.
partyorca on
Shocking that their safety pledge held just as much weight as Google’s “don’t be evil” when they were truly tested.
BrofessorFarnsworth on
Capitulation to Nazis is always the wrong move.
Dalmahr on
So funny after all these threads of people seeing anthropic “standing their ground” only for them to bend the knee instantly.
winterresetmylife on
Waiting for PR to package it nicely.
Fluffy-Dog5264 on
fucking cowards. Can’t say I’m surprised!
JackSpyder on
They cant refuse really.
notPabst404 on
STOP. CAPITULATING. I would boycott anthropic, but it’s not like I would ever use their shit products to begin with.
Privacy rights, human rights, and AI safety need to be huge priorities for whoever is the nominee in 2028 if they want my vote.
Mangled15 on
Lasted just about as long as Hegseth does in bed. Scummy bastard.
AHSfav on
Wtf??? Why?
virtual_adam on
Dario is just as dependent as everyone else in Silicon Valley on the same big name VC money. Bezos, Page, Brin, lightspeed, etc.
If he doesn’t show them how he plans to get more income than inference costs, either by 100x the cost of peoples subscriptions, doing evil for the government, or the classic bombard users with ads. They will shut the endless money faucet. They need to see the path to 1000% returns.
Didn’t Pete Hegseth literally just say he wanted Claude to kill people?
all_about_the_dong on
They should change the nake from anthropic to apanthropic .
leeta0028 on
Seems to be completely unrelated to their dispute with the Pentagon
They’re just going to train AI and then decide if it’s safe to release rather than decide first if a model is safe to train
Chefmeatball on
“We are gonna do the right thing!”
“Sir, the press is eating this up. We have the moral high ground.”
“Turns out our competitors DGAF, and the fascist are mad at us. Guess it’s time to join FAFO”
Rich_Material299 on
Thank yall for caring about Gaza so much.
Honest_Chef323 on
Please everyone (who has a brain) knows there weren’t any ethics to begin with
That’s just illusions for the people only for them to be dropped when it’s convenient
If people thought there were any ethics to begin with they need to snap back into reality
TurkeyVolumeGuesser on
A greedy AI company?!?!
ComoEstanBitches on
US Government: like hell you won’t
Anthropoic: Bet
D3PyroGS on
>“We didn’t really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments … if competitors are blazing ahead.” – Anthropic chief science officer Jared Kaplan
literal villain shit
kaitco on
For anyone surprised by this or unable to understand this decision, all you need to know is this single fact: There’s money to be made.
cosmiccerulean on
What is wrong with our society that only the rottenest of the rotten rise to the top and get to command the rest of humanity as they please?
kapave on
They already used it in strike in venezuela which killed 80+ people. This Company and their AI is complicit in mass murder
wondermorty on
> We felt that it wouldn’t actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models
aka we like money more
Individual-Engine401 on
Everyone thought surveillance on American Citizen was getting out of hand before this better buckle up bc shit is about to get real, real fast. Our constitution is dead
Meandering_Cabbage on
Oh no. That’s horrible. I thought they had the backbone.
Jedi_Ninja on
If Hegseth gets his way and they completely do away with safety protocols they should probably just rename the company Skynet.
rawrpwnsaur on
Butlerian Jihad anyone?
who_am_i_to_say_so on
Anthropic doesn’t need public approval or care about your opinion. Not anymore. The safety pledge was only for show this whole time.
jefaliv724 on
This was their entire shtick! I interviewed with them and safety aspect was almost like a cult. I cannot fathom how they dropped it.
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[Thanks Hegseth!](https://www.axios.com/2026/02/24/anthropic-pentagon-claude-hegseth-dario)
My thoughts of the conversation
A: We are not going to allow the use of this tool for evil and weaponize it
G-men: If you don’t we will use the two words you don’t want to hear
A: What?
G-men: National Security
A: OK you win
>Anthropic, the wildly successful AI company that has cast itself as the most safety-conscious of the top research labs, is dropping the central pledge of its flagship safety policy, company officials tell TIME.
Our tech overlords are just soulless husks of people consumed by greed. None of these people apparently have any ethics or morals they won’t sell out at the drop of a hat for more money or power no matter what it means for everyone else.
virtues of capitalism, everyone.
I’m sure nothing catastrophic will come from this.
Shocking that their safety pledge held just as much weight as Google’s “don’t be evil” when they were truly tested.
Capitulation to Nazis is always the wrong move.
So funny after all these threads of people seeing anthropic “standing their ground” only for them to bend the knee instantly.
Waiting for PR to package it nicely.
fucking cowards. Can’t say I’m surprised!
They cant refuse really.
STOP. CAPITULATING. I would boycott anthropic, but it’s not like I would ever use their shit products to begin with.
Privacy rights, human rights, and AI safety need to be huge priorities for whoever is the nominee in 2028 if they want my vote.
Lasted just about as long as Hegseth does in bed. Scummy bastard.
Wtf??? Why?
Dario is just as dependent as everyone else in Silicon Valley on the same big name VC money. Bezos, Page, Brin, lightspeed, etc.
If he doesn’t show them how he plans to get more income than inference costs, either by 100x the cost of peoples subscriptions, doing evil for the government, or the classic bombard users with ads. They will shut the endless money faucet. They need to see the path to 1000% returns.
Guess that government money was too good
So which is it? Because this article was posted an hour after the one linked here and says the opposite….https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/anthropic-wont-budge-as-pentagon-escalates-ai-dispute/
We all knew the cowards world cave
Money rules the world.
Didn’t Pete Hegseth literally just say he wanted Claude to kill people?
They should change the nake from anthropic to apanthropic .
Seems to be completely unrelated to their dispute with the Pentagon
They’re just going to train AI and then decide if it’s safe to release rather than decide first if a model is safe to train
“We are gonna do the right thing!”
“Sir, the press is eating this up. We have the moral high ground.”
“Turns out our competitors DGAF, and the fascist are mad at us. Guess it’s time to join FAFO”
Thank yall for caring about Gaza so much.
Please everyone (who has a brain) knows there weren’t any ethics to begin with
That’s just illusions for the people only for them to be dropped when it’s convenient
If people thought there were any ethics to begin with they need to snap back into reality
A greedy AI company?!?!
US Government: like hell you won’t
Anthropoic: Bet
>“We didn’t really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments … if competitors are blazing ahead.” – Anthropic chief science officer Jared Kaplan
literal villain shit
For anyone surprised by this or unable to understand this decision, all you need to know is this single fact: There’s money to be made.
What is wrong with our society that only the rottenest of the rotten rise to the top and get to command the rest of humanity as they please?
They already used it in strike in venezuela which killed 80+ people. This Company and their AI is complicit in mass murder
> We felt that it wouldn’t actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models
aka we like money more
Everyone thought surveillance on American Citizen was getting out of hand before this better buckle up bc shit is about to get real, real fast. Our constitution is dead
Oh no. That’s horrible. I thought they had the backbone.
If Hegseth gets his way and they completely do away with safety protocols they should probably just rename the company Skynet.
Butlerian Jihad anyone?
Anthropic doesn’t need public approval or care about your opinion. Not anymore. The safety pledge was only for show this whole time.
This was their entire shtick! I interviewed with them and safety aspect was almost like a cult. I cannot fathom how they dropped it.
FUCK THEM. boycott