[TaupeRanger]

What else would you expect? The military is obviously going to develop the most powerful systems they can. Do you want a tech company to say “the military can never use our stuff for autonomous systems forever, the end”? What if Anthropic ends up developing the safest, most cost effective systems for that purpose?

[crabmusket]

> Do you want a tech company to say “the military can never use our stuff for autonomous systems forever, the end”?

Yes. Absolutely.

[raincole]

And what? Get nationalized? Get labelled as terrorists?

The US system doesn't empower a company to say no. It should though.

[goatlover]

I'd prefer companies not help the military develop the most powerful weapons possible given we're in the age of WMDs, have already had two devastating world wars and a nuclear arms race that puts humanity under permanent risk.

[lambdaphagy]

There is an extremely straightforward argument that WMDs are precisely what prevented the outbreak of direct warfare between major powers in the latter 20th. (Note that WWI by itself wasn’t sufficient to prevent WWII!)

You can take issue with that argument if you want but it’s unconvincing not to address it.

[michelsedgh]

So would you have preferred the Nazis to develop the most powerful weapons and they win the world war? (which they were trying to do?)

[harimau777]

Yes, that's exactly what I want them to say.

[TaupeRanger]

No, you don't. If they develop the safest, most cost-effective version of the technology that the military WILL inevitably use from some company, Anthropic or otherwise, then that's the version of this tech you want them using.

[archagon]

Yes, I absolutely don’t want tech companies to use the money I pay them to harm people. How is that remotely controversial?

[andsoitis]

> I absolutely don’t want tech companies to use the money I pay them to harm people.

Just one example of many, but the companies that make the CPUs you and all of use use every day, also supply to militaries.

I am unaware of any tech company that directly does physical warfare on the battlefield against humans.

[johnisgood]

Time to stop paying your taxes. :P

[scottyah]

Because it's painfully short-sighted, or maliciously ignorant.

[asadotzler]

>Do you want a tech company to say “the military can never use our stuff for autonomous systems forever, the end”?

Yes. Yes, that's precisely what we want.