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been negotiating with Anthropic for weeks on a $200 million AI contract
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HOW TALKS BETWEEN ANTHROPIC AND THE DEFENSE DEPT. FELL APART (8
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Emil Michael, the Department of War's chief technology officer, had
been negotiating with Anthropic for weeks on a $200 million AI
contract. The talks had hit an obstacle as Anthropic would not allow
its technology to be used for purposes such as the surveillance of
Americans. Michael demanded that Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, get on
the phone to discuss the issue, but he was told Amodei was in a
meeting with his executive team and needed more time. Michael had been hammering out a deal with OpenAI on the side, so the Department of War designated Anthropic as a security risk and cut it off from working
with the government.
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nationalize OpenAI or other AI efforts, and the work it takes to keep
society safe. Katrina Mulligan, OpenAI's Head of National Security Partnerships, and Boaz Barak, a computer scientist at OpenAI, were
also present in the thread to answer questions.
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[13]
Anthropic's Claude has dethroned OpenAI's ChatGPT in Apple's App
Store. The sudden surge in rankings is almost certainly due to public
backlash at a recent decision by OpenAI to work with the Department of
War to deploy AI without restrictions on mass domestic surveillance
and fully autonomous weapons. Anthropic was recently labeled a
supply-chain risk to national security for refusing to amend its
safety policies for its work with the government.
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