Ben Mycelis

I mean, heck, when we learned about certain types of wiretapping and surveillance programs post Snowden and things, it was a big deal, right?

But here the government's just saying, we're going to do it.

We're doing it.

We're spying on all of you.

And Anthropic, I guess to their credit, is saying, look, we've developed this Claude, it's called Claude, this powerful AI tool.

You can use our technology.

You were able to use it successfully in Venezuela, and there's a lot of successful military operations.

But we don't want our technology to be used for basically autonomous operations without human oversight, that just the AI decides when to kill people, right?

They surveil on you, and then the AI determines do they kill you or not or abroad.

Again, I'm not being hyperbolic.

The government wants the AI monitoring you 24-7 and then being able to kill you or to be able to kill people abroad.

And that technology to be implemented into drones and other things.

And that the AI decides when someone dies.

And all Anthropic has said is, look, we'll give you the technology.

We do defense work.

we're not going to do mass domestic surveillance because we think that's a crime to do that and we don't want our technology to be used that the ai determines when it kills somebody i mean imagine your chat gpt to saying okay i'm going to kill you now right that's what the government wants the chat gpt to make the decision

So according to a source familiar, that meeting was cordial, not a dressing down, not a screaming match, all business.

Hegseth praised Anthropic's product, but then said if by Friday Anthropic does not agree to the Pentagon's use of the model without restrictions, then Hegseth would terminate the contract and use the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to comply and or designate Anthropic a supply chain threat and national security risk.

Jennifer Griffin says, edit, both are mutually exclusive.

You can't be a supply chain risk, but also invoke the Defense Production Act to say the country needs this product so much for national security that it will override any restriction put in place by the company that limits government access to the product.