This new announcement has Hegseth signing up new companies that say they will follow Anthropoid’s Biden era safeguards on human oversight of computer software actions….
Hegseth did NOT want this ….
But it seems Trump himself has made sure Anthropic continues to used at the standout software system that the government uses …
Seven leading artificial intelligence companies have reached deals to deploy their technology in classified Pentagon computer networks, the Defense Department said Friday.
“Together, the War Department and these strategic partners share the conviction that American leadership in AI is indispensable to national security,” the Pentagon said in a statement, using the administration’s preferred name for the Defense Department….
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A portion of the new agreement reviewed by The Washington Post says the department will agree to follow a Biden-era policy providing for human oversight of weapons systems and to follow laws designed “to ensure full respect for Americans’ rights against unlawful or unauthorized domestic surveillance.”
The lawful purpose standard provoked a bitter fight this winter with Anthropic, one of the nation’s top AI labs, after it sought guarantees its systems would not be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.
Defense officials said at the time they could not agree to red lines that they viewed as giving a private company a veto over national security decisions.
Many leading AI researchers rallied around Anthropic’s position, but Friday’s announcement shows how other corporate leaders have taken a different path. The deals include Microsoft, Amazon and Google. OpenAI, the maker of the GPT AI model, previously reached a deal with the Pentagon that it said would include safeguards similar to those sought by Anthropic….
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