Post #737944

Anthropic vs. DoW #5: Motions Filed https://thezvi.substack.com/p/anthropic-vs-dow-5-motions-filed > The core argument as I understand it is that Anthropic’s actions (which are totally not speech) indicate it in particular might try to sabotage the military, because it… tried to impose some conditions on use and it negotiated hard, and venders of AI systems can do this. By their own argument, I fail to see why OpenAI is not also a supply chain risk, or why Google would not be one if it was supplying AI systems, and so on, or the designation is entirely based on whether DoW decides they trust them. > The government is literally saying that any AI system with ‘ethical restrictions’ thus is a ‘sabotage/subversion’ risk, also that the fact that Anthropic didn’t give it the terms it wants constitutes such risk. And they’re actually putting in a legal brief that Anthropic wants ‘operational control’ over the military. > They showed up with zero amicus briefs in their favor, which I find unsurprising. > They’re really going there. They did not materially retreat. If the government wins with this argument, even at the TRO hearing, then they win the right to subject every other potential AI supplier to the same treatment, and use that threat at will.