Dan Pfeiffer

We know this because Donald Trump told us quite recently that they obliterated the nuclear program in Iran.

If you want to vote to authorize the war, I think that is an insane position.

But that is a vote.

That is you putting your name in and saying, I support this.

I'm giving my power from a co-equal branch to authorize this military conflict.

To try to block the vote from ever happening to somehow burnish your national security bona fides is disgusting.

To be commanded by Pete Hickseth?

No, I don't think it's what people voted for.

I mean, this should be, honestly, one of the biggest stories in the country because it tells us two things.

One, it speaks to all of the massive ethical and policy dilemmas that come with

the very rapid emergence of AI.

It also reveals that the Department of Defense, because I will call it that, not the Department of War, under Donald Trump, would like the power to do mass domestic surveillance.

And then just on top of that, at the same time this story comes out, that what they want, the Department of Defense argues we want

Anthropic to let us do everything we're legally allowed to do.

There are only two rules from Anthropic here.

No mass domestic surveillance and no autonomous weapons that don't involve humans actually be the ones who make the decisions.

The latter is technically legal, although quite irresponsible, and I'll get to why it's even more dangerous in a second.

But mass domestic surveillance, not legal.

And why do they want that?

And that's also not mass.