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adamrezich • today at 5:53 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Ridiculous hypothetical for analogy purposes, but, imagine if Anthropic had developed a new type of rifle that the military was considering using, which had a black-box AI system that could prevent the trigger being pulled when aimed at certain targets. The military says, ok that's cool, as long as we can be in control of that decision-making process. Anthropic says, no, we know better than you and better than the law what kind of targets should and should not be shot with our rifles. The military would then respond “lol, lmao even” and then deem them to be a supply chain risk and adopt another rifle instead.


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wrs • today at 6:16 PM

Or they could just not buy the product in the first place. The supply chain risk part is pure retribution.

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hiddencost • today at 8:41 PM

No, they would simply not buy it.

junofan • today at 5:59 PM

That’s not even the end of the story. Anthropic has sued. They really want to sell their rifles to the government and retain control.

TSiege • today at 5:57 PM

You’re just describing the exact situation we’re in but substituting a drone for a rifle. If the government is mad they should just partner with a contractor who is less concerned about this, which lo-and-behold they did it’s a company called OpenAI.

Anthropic isn’t a supply chain risk since they easy found someone else