alt Hacker NewsAgree. It seems on the surface convenient right now when people think the company (or rank and file employees?) are on their political “team” but they’d get less comfortable when oil companies or other “bad” companies dictate terms to the government. “We’ll provide fuel for the military if and only if you overturn the leader of $COUNTRY”
(Yes, I recognize that past military entanglements do read as favors for Big Oil, but that’s more because lobbyists directly purchased the corrupt and useless Congress)
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ceejayoz • today at 6:11 PM
> “We’ll provide fuel for the military if and only if you overturn the leader of $COUNTRY”
A mechanism to address this exists, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950
In that scenario the President would invoke the Defense Production Act to compel the oil company to supply the oil. They threatened to use that power against Anthropic, though it's unclear how it applies to something like AI. "Claude without guardrails" is not a product Anthropic offers, so they would fight it on grounds similar to how Apple fought against being forced to crack an iPhone.
The main issue here is that Congress is asleep at the wheel and has refused to implement any sort of guardrails around how the government is and is not allowed to use AI.