"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is 'close' to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the AI company a 'supply chain risk' — meaning anyone who wants to do business with the U.S. military has to cut ties with the company, a senior Pentagon official told Axios."
This is super important and really scary if you read Amodei latest January essay which seems to me to contain entirely correct reasoning.
This means pentagon wants their non aligned models more and more. Non aligned super intelligence is far more powerful and dangerous than nuclear weapons. Even whole arsenal of nuclear weapons. Even current level of non aligned intelligence could already allow average individual to synthesize and release a biological weapon such as specially crafted virus.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 26.6 ms ] threadI’m surprised it was Claude, not other more MAGA adjacent model providers, has been the only one vendor.
This means pentagon wants their non aligned models more and more. Non aligned super intelligence is far more powerful and dangerous than nuclear weapons. Even whole arsenal of nuclear weapons. Even current level of non aligned intelligence could already allow average individual to synthesize and release a biological weapon such as specially crafted virus.