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Anthropic Threatened as Supply Chain Risk Over Mass Surveillance Refusal
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People Have No Idea What Is About To Happen - Dwarkesh Patel
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"The Department of War said, we are going to say that you're a supply chain risk, which is this authority that the Congress gave the Department of War to basically ban Huawei devices from being used in missiles or whatever. And instead the Department of War is saying, okay, none of our contractors. So Amazon is a contractor of the Department of War, NVIDIA, Google, etc. Can use your AI in any work they do for us. And the initial goal was really just to do something to kill the company."
Dwarkesh Patel revealed that the Department of Defense attempted to destroy AI company Anthropic by labeling it a supply chain risk after Anthropic refused to remove red lines against mass surveillance in military contracts. The DOD told major contractors including Amazon, NVIDIA, and Google they could not use Anthropic's AI in government work, weaponizing supply chain authority originally designed for foreign threats like Huawei against a domestic AI company.
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