The CEO of artificial intelligence company Anthropic, Dario Amodei, has responded to the US Department of Defense and the White House by ordering military contractors working with the Department of Defense to stop using Anthropic products.
Anthropic has opposed the utilize of its artificial intelligence models for mass home surveillance and fully autonomous weapons that can fire without human intervention, Amodei said CBS News on Saturday.
He added that Anthropic agrees with all the U.S. government’s proposed utilize cases for its AI models, with the exception of surveillance platforms and fully autonomous weapons. He said:
“These are things that are fundamental to Americans: the right not to be spied on by the government, the right of our military officers to make their own decisions about war and not put them entirely in the hands of a machine.”
The Department of Defense’s decision to designate Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” meaning military contractors cannot utilize Anthropic products on defense contracts, is “unprecedented” and “punitive,” he added.
Amodei later clarified that he is not opposed to the development of fully automated weapons if foreign militaries begin using them in the future, but that artificial intelligence is not yet reliable enough to function autonomously in a military environment.
Amodei said the law has not kept pace with the rapidly growing artificial intelligence sector, calling on the US Congress to overcome “barriers” that prevent the utilize of artificial intelligence in domestic mass surveillance programs.
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On Friday, American “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth announced that Anthropic poses a “national security threat to the supply chain.”
“Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier or partner doing business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic,” it said.
Hours later, rival artificial intelligence company OpenAI accepted a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to deploy its artificial intelligence models on military networks.
The announcement The agreement concluded with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was met with fierce criticism on the Internet, who saw the utilize of artificial intelligence for mass home surveillance and violating individual privacy as a red line.
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