Emil Michael on Why Anthropic Is Deemed a Supply Chain Risk - Yahoo Finance
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The Pentagon believes that Anthropic "can't work in the sensitive ways we want to work" due to the tech giant's philosophy that Claude can override human judgement.
All right. So let's come back home um to Anthropic, which you alluded to earlier. Um, you've declared them a supply chain risk. It's a company that's about to IPO, that's in, you know, the sort of cutting edge of the AI race which the Trump administration says America must win. Is that a designation that you feel should still be in place?
Oh, yeah. I mean, the the if their philosophy written in contract and in their constitution says that the model can can decide to do what it wants to do and override human judgment. It violates my first principle that I talked to you, which we have is that human judgment has to prevail. So, you can't work with a company in the in the sensitive ways that we're trying to work if they say the model could just overrule the human operator. That's not that's not acceptable. So, that makes it a supply chain risk for any other product that comes into the the the War Department that's built using their software.
There was a period, so Palantir was allowed to continue to use Claude in Maven Smart system for a period of time. I think it ended in September. Like, was it harder to quit that, to quit Anthropic than you thought?
No, we got it all done within six months and by the way, uh a circuit court, you know, affirmed this decision. So, uh I think that was good news to show that we were we were on target there. Um what's hard about putting super intelligence in the war department is not is that I have to put it on a classified data center. And that's actually takes some like work. So for all these companies that, you know, they haven't done it, but we have open AI running now…
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