(Not sure if this belongs here. Mods, please don’t hesitate to move.)
This article on CNBC : “Anthropic faces Friday deadline in Defense AI clash with Hegseth”
Anthropic is the company behind Claude, among the most successful LLMs out there.
Basically Pete Hegseth wants Anthropic to remove clauses that prohibit use of their AI models in autonomous weapons and for spying on U.S. citizens. If the clauses aren’t removed, the company will lose the contract with the DoD, and also be effectively banned from contracts with any defense contractors… and Hegseth / Trump can commandeer the models anyway.
Anthropic’s negotiations with the Department of Defense have stalled because it wants assurance that its models will not be used for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance of Americans. The DoD, meanwhile, wants the company to agree to “all lawful use cases” without limitation.
A “supply chain risk” is a designation that’s typically reserved for foreign adversaries, but it would require the DoD’s vendors and contractors to certify that they do not use Anthropic’s models. The Defense Production Act allows the president to control domestic industries under emergency authority when it’s in the interest of national security.
Apparently, the other supplier, “xAI”, doesn’t impose such “woke” limitations.