"All Lawful Use": Much More Than You Wanted To Know

<p>Last Friday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared AI company Anthropic a "<a href= "https://x.com/SecWar/status/2027507717469049070">supply chain risk</a>", the first time this designation has ever been applied to a US company. The trigger for the move was Anthropic's <a href= "https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war">refusal</a> to allow the Department of War to use their AIs for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.</p> <p>A few hours later, Hegseth and Sam Altman declared an agreement-in-principle for OpenAI's models to be used in the niche vacated by Anthropic. Altman …