Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth jabs Anthropic over safety policies
Semafor • • world
Key Points:
- The Pentagon launched Genai.mil, a platform providing access to a specialized version of Google's Gemini AI model, and recently added xAI’s Grok as part of its AI acceleration strategy.
- AI safety advocates, including some from Anthropic, raised concerns about the Pentagon’s policy language, which downplays the importance of guardrails and supports using models without usage policy constraints for military applications.
- Anthropic opposes the military use of its technology for weapons development, fearing premature reliance on AI in combat could lead to deadly errors, though an administration official criticized Anthropic’s restrictions as excessive.
- Many AI researchers struggle with the reality that their technology may be used for lethal purposes despite efforts to promote responsible use, highlighting the challenge of
