The Pentagon is right in trying to coerce Anthropic as AI may become a superweapon and nation-states must have a monopoly on the use of force
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Discussion
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@noahpinion
Noah Smith
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By the way, as much as I hate to say it, the Department of War is right and Anthropic is wrong. Here's why. [image]
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@krishnanrohit
Rohit
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@Noahpinion It is absurd to say you're building a nuke and not expect the government to take control of it! https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/ ... [image]
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@deanwball
Dean W. Ball
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Ok, so the actual argument is more like “Anthropic builds a useful technology whose utility is growing, therefore they should expect to have their property expropriated and to be harassed by the government.” The whole point of America is that isn't supposed to be true here.
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@deanwball
Dean W. Ball
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The problem with this is that DoW is not taking Anthropic's calls for “oversight” seriously. Indeed, elsewhere in the administration, Anthropic's “calls for oversight” are dismissed as “regulatory capture” and actively fought. Rohit and Noah are dressing up political harassment.
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@noahpinion
Noah Smith
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The recent fight between Anthropic of the Department of War illustrates a deeper truth: AI is a weapon, and it might soon the most powerful weapon ever created. https://www.noahpinion.blog/ ...
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@creatine_cycle
Atlas
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.@Noahpinion weighed in on Anthropic vs DoW. “if you are building something that is more powerful than nuclear weapons you do not get to keep it. that is the rule of nation states.” - @Noahpinion “if the nation state allows you to build a private nuke tomorrow there is no [video]
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@nathanpmyoung
Nathan
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I think there is something to this but Smith is reaching. We don't need to say the DoW was right to say that AI is unregulated according to anthropic's view.
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@deanwball
Dean W. Ball
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We should be extremely clear that trump admin largely views Anthropic's claims about the future of AI as outlandish (in some ways I do too!), and so the above quoted material is not so much analysis of the relevant usg actors as it is analysis of what rohit himself thinks
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@thezvi
Zvi Mowshowitz
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The correct response to realizing this is what you are building is to notice that if anyone builds it, everyone probably dies and then rather than care who owns it you DON'T F***ING BUILD IT.