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demuisyesterday at 10:13 PM4 repliesview on HN

Would love nothing more than for sama to refuse government contracts in solidarity. Free enterprise isn’t free


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nickledavetoday at 4:31 AM

Oh yeah he's refusing out of solidarity alright :eyeroll:

https://x.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175?s=20

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.

In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.

AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of > our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.

We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.

We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our > strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.

We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

Amazing / weird that this sounds like a lot of the stuff Amodei said Anthropic asked for

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NittLion78yesterday at 10:30 PM

Idk who would even want them as a client. They'll change course on you every 4 years at minimum potentially in massive ways that might force you to change your product putting all your other users at risk - and they might just do that to you legislatively, anyway!

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sama2026yesterday at 10:24 PM

OpenAI courts Trump and their executives donate to MAGA foundations directly.

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et-alyesterday at 10:24 PM

The same Sam Altman that brought us Worldcoin + The Orb?

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