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palantir is the prime contractor of their sub um but it raised enough alarm with palantir who's got a trusted relationship with the department to tell me
they were not gonna win this the intellectual battle of well we're gonna stop you we're gonna use our judgment because we think congress is behind and impose it on the us military... they can change the model weights if they want they can do whatever they want... we're potentially so dependent on a software provider without another alternative that has the right or ability to do to not only shut it off maybe it's a rogue developer who could poison the model
so if you remember the biden executive order on ai which was this crazy executive order that limited the amount of compute any model company could do and was essentially grandfathered in a few small a few small number of ai companies that they were going to designate the winners and everyone else was out so they could have more control on what they did um anthropic was one of those winners um and then they were smart active as a good sales strategy to sell into the most sensitive parts of u.s go
we need ai for things like golden dome chinese hypersonic mixel comes up you've got 90 seconds before it separates and all kinds of decoys and you don't know where the actual payload is and you want to hit it from space and a human can't doesn't have the reaction time doesn't have the may not be able to discriminate with their own eyes what they're going after that's a pretty you know low risk thing because it's in space and you're just trying to hit something that's trying to hit you
i'm like holy what if this software went down some guardrail kicked up some refusal happened for the next fight like this one and we left our people at risk
the trigger point was after the maduro raid one of their execs called palantir who we buy themselves through and asked them uh was our software used in that raid which is by the way classified information anyway
they were not gonna win this the intellectual battle of well we're gonna stop you we're gonna use our judgment because we think congress is behind and impose it on the us military and it became this like let's find the issues that are most inflammatory robot weapons and mass surveillance
they say you can't use them for you can't use them to plan a kinetic strike you can't use their ai model to move a satellite you can't there was a 20 page you can't do a war game scenario
anthropic was one of those winners
this is part of the debate i had with anthropic which is we need ai for things like golden dome chinese hypersonic mixel comes up you've got 90 seconds before it separates and all kinds of decoys and you don't know where the actual payload is and you want to get it hit it from space and a human can't doesn't have the reaction time doesn't have the may not be able to discriminate with their own eyes what they're going after that's a pretty you know low risk thing because it's in space and you're