US threatens Anthropic with deadline in dispute on AI safeguards
The AI developer laid out red lines on military use of its products, a source said.
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Notable Quotes
"We continued good-faith conversations about our usage policy to ensure Anthropic can continue to support the government's national security mission in line with what our models can reliably and responsibly do."
— Dario Amodei , Executive
"They need to get to a resolution."
— Emelia Probasco , Academic
"We felt that it wouldn't actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models."
— Jared Kaplan , Executive
"I don’t think we’re making any kind of U-turn."
— Jared Kaplan , Executive
"Dario expressed appreciation for the Department’s work and thanked the Secretary for his service."
— Dario Amodei , Executive
"Illegitimate and prone to abuse."
— Dario Amodei , Executive
Key People
Dario Amodei is a co-founder of Anthropic.
Senior Fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
Jared Kaplan is the chief science officer and co-founder of Anthropic, an AI company.
The President of Venezuela, involved in a long-standing political crisis.
Pete Hegseth is the United States Secretary of Defense.
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The AI developer laid out red lines on military use of its products, a source said.
Anthropic has dropped a central pledge from its 2023 Responsible Scaling Policy, which previously barred it from training AI systems unless it could guarantee adequate safety measures, amid rapid AI advancements and intensifying industry and geopolitical competition.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given San Francisco artificial intelligence company Anthropic until Friday to roll back safety restrictions on its AI model, Claude, for military use, or risk losing a $200 million Pentagon contract and being designated a 'supply chain risk'.
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