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Keith Teare's avatar

I think much of the applause is about disapproval of AI used in surveillance or autonomous weapons. I would also disapprove and applaud.

But my point is that Governments have to be voted out. You can’t work around things you dislike via a sales contract. If you could why bother with democracy and elections.

Dario should express his views by funding causes and candidates. Not by trying to set policy

Clarence Wooten's avatar

At the end of the day, Anthropic and their entire corporate culture is built around their belief in AI safety. If they change their TOS based on the Department of War publicly criticizing Anthropic’s core values to bend them into submission, Anthropic’s employee base would probably revolt to some extent.

I applaud their decision given the ultimate long-term safety concerns. It seems that many others do as well given that Claude has risen to #1 in the App Store this weekend.

Weisshorn Ent's avatar

Anthropic is a corporate equivalent of a *sovereign citizen* that has started an extinction event for this company that will cause the loss of $20 billion investment made last week!

Adam Bosworth's avatar

Was Facebook wrong to ban porn in their initial term of service? It wasn’t the law. It was them governing their app. Would Facebook be wrong if it banned hate speech. It wouldn’t be the law in the U.S. which has the president uttering hate speech each day? I think it is completely wrong to say only the government can decide how to ethically use a product and given the current government of the U.S. massively disingenuous

Keith Teare's avatar

yes Facebook would absolutely be wrong. users are not children - they can decide what to think and what to view. As long as it is within the law it does not require a "classroom monitor"