The US military is threatening to cut ties with AI firm Anthropic over the company's refusal to allow its AI to be used for mass civilian surveillance and fully AI-controlled weapons.

As the "Are We the Baddies?" meme suggests. If you're a country's military, in a democracy, that wants to carry out mass civilian surveillance and use killer robots, maybe you're the one with the problem. Anthropic can be as principled as they like, there are plenty who'll be happy to help - Peter Thiel's Palantir is eager and enthusiastic about implementing this agenda. It's depressing that none of the other Big Tech firms have any scruples about this. Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute