[nubg]

I think it's phrased just fine. It's not up to Dario to try to make absolute statements about the future.

[m000]

How about the present and his personal beliefs?

"I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries."

This reads like his objection is not on "autocratic", but on "adversaries". Autocratic friends & family are cool with him. A clear wink to a certain administration with autocratic tendencies.

[anjellow]

Some people can’t help themselves to read this like a Ouija board.

[wrs]

I thought this was ambiguously worded in a beautiful way. At the moment, one could say that some autocratic adversaries of the United States and other democracies currently lead the government of the United States.

[jacquesm]

That all works right up until the United States becomes autocratic and that process is well underway.

So yes, the second part of your comment is what is going to come back to haunt them. The road to hell is paved with the best intentions.

[estearum]

Western liberal ideals are better than the opposite. It is misanthropic to build autocratic societies.

[taurath]

> It's not up to Dario to try to make absolute statements about the future.

Thats insane to say, given that he's literally acting in the public sphere as the mouth of Sauron for how AI will grow so effective as to destroy almost everyone's jobs and AGI will take over our society and kill us all.

[nubg]

All I'm trying to say is that nobody can predict the future, and therefore saying statements pretending something will be a certain way forever is just silly. It's OK for him to add this qualifier.

[andrewljohnson]

This doesn’t read to me like it was personally written by one person. It’s not Dario we should read this as being written by, it’s Anthropic as an entity.

[lm28469]

He does it all the time when it helps selling his products though, strange

[titzer]

It's not called The Department of War.

It's just incredible to me that people think this is some kind of bold statement defying the administration when it is absolutely filled with small and medium capitulations, laying out in numerous examples how they just jumped right in bed with the military.

And no one seems disturbed by the blatant Orwellian doublespeak throughout. "We thoroughly support the mission of the Department of War"--because War is Peace.

[dwringer]

I'm really surprised that didn't jump out at more people; I had to get halfway through the comments to the 27th mention of "Department of War" to find the first comment pointing out that using the name is itself a capitulation.

[asadotzler]

Except that it is absolutely called The Department of War and that's by Trump's own hand.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/rest...

"By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

"The name “Department of War,” more than the current “Department of Defense,” ensures peace through strength, as it demonstrates our ability and willingness to fight and win wars on behalf of our Nation at a moment’s notice, not just to defend. This name sharpens the Department’s focus on our own national interest and our adversaries’ focus on our willingness and availability to wage war to secure what is ours. I have therefore determined that this Department should once again be known as the Department of War and the Secretary should be known as the Secretary of War."

[nhinck2]

He does it all the time.

[camillomiller]

And yet he’s quite happy to make just that when it’s meant to drum you up his own product for investors

[trvz]

He’s one of the most influential people when it comes to what future we’ll have. Yes, it’s up to him.

[ternwer]

I think he's more pragmatic than that.