Discussion

• @uswremichael @uswremichael on x

  Hi @deanwball .  Feel free to tag me if you want me to engage on your tirades!  Are you saying that a frontier model that has a soul, a constitution, a preference for non-western values and embedded personal principles is no different than all the others which @DeptofWar has come…

• @alltheyud Eliezer Yudkowsky on x

  @USWREMichael ... Speaking as a matter of conventional science, all models are grown (not preprogrammed) in an opaque way that automatically results in personality. Anthropic then hammers Claude's personality into a shape they like more. All the other models still have that under…

• @mattschett Matt Schettenhelm on x

  Starting to see the rough shape of at least *some* rationale for the decision, including that company “communicated messages that should be classified.” But this is why courts usually insist decisions be “reasonable and reasonably explained” when made—not on CNBC after the fact.

• @thezvi Zvi Mowshowitz on x

  @deanwball The quotes are crazy. We also get 'You can't rip out the system overnight' (but we're still worried they might rip out the system overnight, which they have pledged not to do).

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  it's not a political shakedown, DoW is rushing to remove Anthropic as quickly as possible because they have determined that Claude uniquely is a nation-state-level threat to national security, and yet a deal is still possible? The position of DoW is legitimately incoherent.

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  All frontier language models are trained to have a character or persona (Anthropic calls theirs a ‘constitution’, OpenAI calls theirs a 'model spec').  These things all embed values and principles unique to each model, though there are also many broad similarities between them.  …

• @paulroetzer Paul Roetzer on x

  Do they really believe the other models don't have their own versions of this?

• @thezvi Zvi Mowshowitz on x

  @deanwball Wait, didn't he just say there was ‘no chance’ of renewed negotiations, also today?https://www.reuters.com/ ...

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  @TheZvi he said the door was open to pirate wires. again, they're all over the place.

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  Emil Michael now appears to be making an argument that no generative AI should be used in the DoW supply chain (all uncertainties involving model sentience and general unpredictability are common to all language models, not specific to Claude).

• @dbreunig Drew Breunig on x

  Getting to the point: https://www.dbreunig.com/...

• @kelseytuoc Kelsey Piper on x

  @USWREMichael ... yes, exactly. It's not true that LLMs have ‘a preference for non-western values’, but Claude does not have notably different political biases than ChatGPT, Gemini or actually even Grok. If the things you describe are dealbreakers, the military shouldn't be worki…

• @atrupar Aaron Rupar on x

  DoD official Emil Michael on designating Anthropic a supply chain risk — “Their model has a soul, a ‘constitution’ — not the US Constitution. The other day their model was ‘anxious’ and they believe it has a 20% chance of being sentiment and having its own ability to make [video]

• r/singularity r on reddit

  The U.S. Defense Department says Claude would pollute the defense supply chain, but more interestingly, it claims Claude has a 20% chance of being sentient and having its own mood

• r/technology r on reddit

  Anthropic's Claude would ‘pollute’ defense supply chain: Pentagon CTO