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This report is the last section of a long report (found HERE) that argued that Anthropic should not have offered its services to the Pentagon because Anthropic’s idealism was a bad fit for the Pentagon’s pragmatism. The founders of Anthropic had angrily departed their former employer OpenAI because they felt that its CEO Sam Altman was too pragmatic. To be specific, they felt that he didn’t give sufficient attention to minimizing the risks that users of OpenAI's generative AI services might encounter. But as argued in the full report, war is what happens when diplomacy fails. Leaders of the Pentagon must be ruthlessly pragmatic because they have to mobilize their war fighters to do things in times of war that would have been unthinkable for them to do in times of peace. This was a bad partnership that was doomed to fail,
The final section of the full report had far greater negative impact because it found that that Anthropic itself now posed the greatest generative AI threat thus far to the employment of millions of white collar employees in America and millions more around the world. The editor is reposting it as a separate report because it is well worth reading on its own.
