alt Hacker NewsThe first sentence of that post is:
> The Department of War has no interest in using AI to conduct mass surveillance of Americans (which is illegal) nor do we want to use AI to develop autonomous weapons that operate without human involvement.
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array_key_first • today at 8:31 AM
This administration would never lie, no siree! And especially not on Twitter!
I'm torn here. Who should we believe? The normal people or the people who operate exclusively in dishonesty?
ImPostingOnHN • today at 3:12 AM
And yet, if that statement were true, and not a lie, we would not be here right now, discussing their insistence upon being able to use software for precisely those things.
Is a pundit/politician lying to you a new experience?
Saying something on twitter is not a guarantee.
Tomorrow he could change his mind to "we want to use AI to develop autonomous weapons that operate without human involvement." the issue is that he wants Anthropic to change the use terms because "We will not let ANY company dictate the terms regarding how we make operational decisions."