Derek Thompson

If the Defense Department was simply like, okay, we're not going to buy your planes, Lockheed Martin.

No, thanks.

That's how things go.

Yeah, right.

I think it's okay for the U.S.

government, for the Pentagon to have said, look, you want certain restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence.

And it's my understanding that this really broke down when it came to autonomous technology, even more than the surveillance piece that's being talked about a little bit more in the media.

It's my understanding it really broke down over autonomous use, like autonomous drone swarms and things like that.

If Anthropic has different values than the Pentagon, I think two parties can simply say, this deal can't go forward.

Yes, we signed a $200 million contract with you.

This would be the perspective of Anthropic.

A year ago, you want to change the terms of that contract.

We're not comfortable with that.

Goodbye.

The contract is over.

That's normal behavior.

You want to sign a contract that allows for AI use of autonomous drone swarms?

You can go to OpenAI, you can go to Gemini, you can go to whoever else, and you can sign that contract.

That's freedom.

That's the kind of capitalist freedom that I believe in.