Pentagon–Anthropic brawl demands rethink of AI industry

(David Wroe – ASPI The Strategist) Imagine we found a way to build gods—or demons. Would we want private companies to have sole responsibility and control over the almighty? Imagine the workload on their legal teams. Fine, they’re dramatic questions, but they’re pressing ones after the past week’s blow-up between the Pentagon and artificial intelligence company Anthropic, which ended in severe penalties for the AI lab. This fight was about much more than one company’s right to veto two narrow uses of its models—fully autonomous lethal strike and domestic mass surveillance—by the US military. It’s about who controls technology that will increasingly wield enormous power over human lives, not just in military settings but across every realm. – Pentagon–Anthropic brawl demands rethink of AI industry | The Strategist