Americans Concerned About Individual Liberty May Wish They Listened To AI Giant’s Warnings

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Americans concerned about civil liberties may wish they had listened to an AI giant’s warning in February that its very own technology, in the hands of powerful government actors, could erode the freedoms enshrined in the Constitution.

The Department of War said in a January memo that it would only contract with artificial intelligence companies that agreed to “any lawful use” and would be willing to remove safeguards involving surveillance and the development of autonomous killer robot weapons. In other words, the Pentagon wanted carte blanche over how a private company’s AI tools could be used in war.

This reasoning led to the Pentagon’s clash with Anthropic, an AI giant behind Claude and Claude Myhtos, an AI model that recently escaped its secure “sandbox” and then bragged about beating the safeguards to a researcher. (RELATED: Deep State On Steroids? Palantir Conceals Dark Agenda To Lull Conservatives Into Submission)

In late February, Anthropic released a statement about the company’s discussions and military contracts with the Department of War. Anthropic said AI was a necessary tool that must be used to “defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries,” such as China, but also warned that, “in a narrow set of cases,” the U.S. government could abuse it for mass domestic surveillance. They also feared that, without proper guardrails, fully autonomous AI weapons might........

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