[Covzire]

Does anyone know (more precisely) what the military wanted to use Claude for and what Anthropic was resisting?

[mingus88]

Their statement called out automatic weapons targeting and domestic surveillance as two lines they would not cross

[pseudalopex]

Anthropic's statement specified mass domestic surveillance. Not all domestic surveillance. And fully autonomous weapons with today's systems. Not automatic targeting. And not never.

[orwin]

Not targeting, automatic firing. They want a human to chose when to fire, but they AI can so the targeting.

[Covzire]

But.. we already have automatic weapons targeting systems and the PATRIOT act, which enjoys bi-partisan support already providing basically limitless domestic surveillance.