We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots
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The Pentagon pressures Anthropic to remove AI safety guardrails for military use, including autonomous weapons, sparking industry-wide ethical concerns among tech workers.
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It's the day of the Pentagon's looming ultimatum for Anthropic: allow the US military unchecked access to its technology, including for mass surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons, or potentially be designated a "supply chain risk" and potentially lose hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts. Amid the intensifying public statements and threats, tech workers across the industry are looking at their own companies' government and military contracts wondering what kind of future they're helping to build.
While the Department of Defense has spent weeks negotiating with Anthropic over removing its guardrails, including allowing t …