Comment by ImPostingOnHN
1 day ago
The DoD is explicitly asking for those things, by forcing contract renegotiation towards a contract that is identical in every way, except removing the prohibition on those things.
If the DoD did not want those things, it would not be forcing a contract renegotiation to include them, at great cost to the government.
No, the DoW may be implicitly asking for those things.
That’s the point I’m trying to make here: Anthropic should just say the unsaid thing here.
DoW asked for the following thing: $foo. We won’t give that to them.
That thing is removing the restrictions from the contract.
> Anthropic should just say the unsaid thing here.
> DoW asked for the following thing: $foo. We won’t give that to them.
Anthropic has explicitly said that multiple times, including in the letter we are presently discussing.
$foo is the ability to use Claude for domestic mass surveillance and analysis, and/or fully-autonomous killbots.