No (fully) automated killing (yet), but damn did they want to implement it.
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Iconoclast, don't be disingenuous.
The direct quote is "We have offered to work directly with the Department of War on R&D to improve the reliability of these systems". "We" meaning Anthropic. "These systems" meaning fully autonomous weapons.
Do you acknowledge they did this? Try not to weasel out of answering with more pedantry. It's almost as disturbing as your apparent defense of that Silicon Valley AI cult.
Google also changed the rules on API key security after years of precedent.
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-werent-secrets-but-then-gemini-changed-the-rules
I'm sure they have a reason for everything they do, but rarely are they good reasons.
Iconoclast, I see you edited your post after I replied. You did not answer whether you accept the fact that Anthropic explicitly wanted to develop fully autonomous AI alongside the Trump Department of "War."
Either you're lying, or you're the one desperately trying to reshape the truth.
Iconoclast, you have moved beyond accidental deception into intentional lies.
Anthropic offered to work directly with the Department of "War" on R&D to improve the reliability of autonomous bombing systems.
That's what your link says. Do you deny this explicit fact?
Yes...? I saw his comments weeks ago, and smelled something off about them. And apparently Ars agreed, and determined they were lacking.
And now, "Edwards said he was unable to comment at this time."
The comments here around this were so... Off. I guess nothing was certain, but we were supposed to believe that the author was too sick to write an article, but also writing an article and using an AI "tool" at the same time.
Hindsight is 20/20, but popular defenses at the time were
He wrote the article himself, he just got mixed up when experimenting with using an AI tool to help him extract quotes from a blog entry. (He is the head AI writer, so learning about these tools is his job.) It was nonetheless his failure to check the quotes he was copying from his note to make sure that he got them right… but an important bit of context is that he had COVID while doing all this.
For anybody wondering "what is a Zed, and why would I need it":
Zed is a minimal code editor crafted for speed and collaboration with humans and AI.
A code editor built on an industry burning through venture capital? Great.
Arbitration. The updated Terms include a binding arbitration clause with a class action waiver. Arbitration provides a faster, lower-cost resolution process for disputes between individual users and Zed compared to traditional litigation. We recognize this is a meaningful legal trade-off, which is why we include a 30-day opt-out window after you accept the Terms. Section 15 has the full details, including how to opt out.
I like how they try to frame arbitration as efficient.
Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Sam Bankman-Fried, etc all positioned themselves as the Cool/Good Guy who was better than all the others. Dario Amodei is just playing using the same playbook.
The comments above look rude, but none of them appear out of the ordinary compared to the behavior of the person they were replying to:
And for the record, this is a pro-AI post, and this is a pro-AI community on a Pro-AI instance. I am a real leftist and I’m not hiding from that. That’s not something to be ashamed of.
I'm probably not considered a leftist, but surely this is not the left's position on AI.
Most of the thread is nuked, but this comment remains from gwl, who was banned apparently for being a "Slopper troll":
25 mins old account.
Obvious troll is obvious.
This is some shit for brains troll too cowardly to say what they want to say on main so keeping an account exclusively for saying their horrible shitty views.
The left supports Human Rights. Trans Rights are Human Rights.
This is how you get a reputation as being a troll, FaceDeer
Exactly. Which should have you condemning their warmonger ambitions, if you had moral consistency.
Which becomes true to them as soon as it doesn't kill Americans.
It's okay, you can just say you endorse America building autonomous weapons to wipe out people of any nationality. You can acknowledge that doing this is a Green Line according to Warmonger Dario Amodei. I support you coming out of that closet.