Amrith Ramkumar

Companies that choose to work with the Pentagon, as long as it is going to comply with legal protections and the sort of the few red lines that the field we have, I think we share with Anthropic and that other companies also independently agree with.

I think it is important to do that.

For all the differences I have with Anthropic, I mostly trust them as a company, and I think they really do care about safety, and I've been happy that they've been supporting our warfighters.

I'm not sure where this is going to go.

The Defense Technology Summit in Florida on Tuesday was really a gathering of some top Pentagon officials and people in the tech world.

And the motivation is to embed the most advanced technology throughout the U.S.

military.

And that was the AI company Anthropic and the use of its tools in the military.

And it's the latest sort of development in this saga that's consumed a lot of Washington.

They are clashing with the Pentagon over how the military uses quad, Anthropic's AI models.

And Anthropic is trying to put up some guardrails and prevent some uses.

And they've been fighting over that for many months now.

This fight is really about AI's use in the military and the government broadly.

It's about whether the technology can be used for, in the future, autonomous weapons potentially, or for surveillance and law enforcement.

And that has far-reaching consequences that will probably not be clear for a while.

But this is the first salvo in what is going to be a very long, complicated battle.

They are a bunch of people who got uncomfortable with the idea that OpenAI was favoring technology advancement over responsible use of the technology.

This is just like a quirky bunch of San Francisco characters.

The CEO, Dario, is known as Professor Panda.

He has a chicken coop in his backyard and he has a camera on them at all times.