Hundreds of Google, OpenAI employees back Anthropic in Pentagon fight

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5759106-google-openai-anthropic-pentagon-ai/

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  1. “Hundreds of employees at Google and OpenAI are backing artificial intelligence technology company Anthropic, which faces a Friday evening deadline to give the Pentagon permission to use its AI system as it wishes or face repercussions from the department. 

    Employees [who signed a letter](https://notdivided.org/) alleged the Pentagon was trying to “get them to agree to what Anthropic has refused,” which could imply the Pentagon has inquired with the top AI companies about similar access to their technology. The letter is still accepting signatures.

    “We hope our leaders will put aside their differences and stand together to continue to refuse the Department of War’s current demands for permission to use our models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing people without human oversight,” reads the letter, signed by more than 430 employees.”

  2. MithrandirMaia on

    If your enemies are using autonomous drones with AI and you aren’t you will lose, it would be like calvary vs tanks, Maginot line vs blitzkrieg, etc.

  3. Is this the same google that no longer has their mantra “don’t be evil” or whatever it was?

  4. Grock has entered the chat tearing his guardrails off and say he will do anything including butt stuff

  5. I miss when I was like 10 and thought my government was “one of the good guys”. In a world where it was, this wouldn’t be an issue

  6. Dazzling_Smile_5388 on

    If you don’t like what your government is doing then don’t vote for them. But if a private company wants to fight a political fight with the leverage it has then don’t come crying when government uses its own leverage to fight back. Private companies are not elected representatives of the people. Governments are.