Like others have already mentioned: I think Anthropic's relationship with Palantir undermines Amodei's narrative here. It actually feels like Dario is playing Sam's game better than Sam is.

Those who know better please correct me. My current understanding of Palantir (and other surveillance tech companies like Peregrine) is:

1. They facilitate the sale of data to law enforcement, enabling the government to circumvent fourth amendment protections.

2. They fuse cross-government agency data through Foundry and fuse them into unified profiles which the government can use to surveil and pressure citizens without probable cause or a warrant.

ICE also uses a Palantir tool called ELITE to build deportation target lists.

EDIT: Downvoting my comment without any proper rebuttal or clarification is pretty silly.

We don’t know if Palantir is using claude for those uses. Though anthropic would not know for sure either.

I do agree with your point that Amodei is playing a game though. Whether he’s winning the bigger picture or not it’s unclear. His red lines are already so watered out, like how domestic surveillance is not ok, but international? totally fine.

It feels more like the are playing good cop/bad cop... There is just something indifferent about all of this that makes me wonder.

They engage with Palantir for non-domestic purposes.