A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggressive dealmaker for Uber, as he takes a leading role in the Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic
Emil Michael made his name in Silicon Valley a decade ago as an aggressive dealmaker for a startup — Uber Technologies Inc. …
Bloomberg Rebecca Torrence
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Discussion
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@rebeccatorrenc5
Rebecca Torrence
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Emil Michael built Uber into a global force — and left amid scandal. Now he's pushing AI deeper into the military and publicly sparring with Anthropic's CEO. How his hardball dealmaking is defining Washington's AI fight: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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@jtillipman
Jessica Tillipman
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The Financial Times is reporting that GSA has drafted new guidelines requiring AI companies to grant the government an “irrevocable license” to use their systems for “any lawful” purpose. This is not the Pentagon—this is the civilian side of federal procurement. If the [image]
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@noahpinion
Noah Smith
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This kind of scenario explains exactly why the DoW acted against Anthropic. If its AI gets good enough, Anthropic becomes the government. (The same is true of OpenAI of course)
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@hamandcheese
Samuel Hammond
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>be 2027 >Anthropic is first to RSI >Superintelligence achieved >ohshit.png >GDP growth now 20% > robot API dark factories go brrrr >phone rings >it's the DoW >"hey so about that supply chain risk thing" >Claude has already read the call transcript and drafted the settlement > [i…
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@sd_marlow
Steven Marlow
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“may become” is doing all the work here, and is the fault of the same tech industry that has been selling the idea of how big the payoff is going to be. Pentagon LOVES being sold ideas, and military industrial complex LOVES getting paid to try and figure them out.
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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.
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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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@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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@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.