Comment by pbiggar
1 day ago
Notice that Anthropic doesn't support spying on Americans specifically - spying on anyone else is fine. Can't spy on three specific 300m people, but spying on the other 7.7B totally ok.
1 day ago
Notice that Anthropic doesn't support spying on Americans specifically - spying on anyone else is fine. Can't spy on three specific 300m people, but spying on the other 7.7B totally ok.
Well, yes.
But the desire and ability to control non-citizens en masse is nothing like the threat a government is to its own citizens.
In practice the two activities have very different natures and impact.
Except most of the world's population, and in fact large fraction of the engineers and scientists working on these things, are not US citizens.