The DoD is explicitly asking for those things, by forcing contract renegotiation towards a contract that is identical in every way, except removing the prohibition on those things.

If the DoD did not want those things, it would not be forcing a contract renegotiation to include them, at great cost to the government.

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blhack 5 hours ago | parent [-]

No, the DoW may be implicitly asking for those things.

That’s the point I’m trying to make here: Anthropic should just say the unsaid thing here.

DoW asked for the following thing: $foo. We won’t give that to them.

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		That thing is removing the restrictions from the contract.
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		> Anthropic should just say the unsaid thing here. > DoW asked for the following thing: $foo. We won’t give that to them. Anthropic has explicitly said that multiple times, including in the letter we are presently discussing. $foo is the ability to use Claude for domestic mass surveillance and analysis, and/or fully-autonomous killbots.