Ridiculous hypothetical for analogy purposes, but, imagine if Anthropic had developed a new type of rifle that the military was considering using, which had a black-box AI system that could prevent the trigger being pulled when aimed at certain targets. The military says, ok that's cool, as long as we can be in control of that decision-making process. Anthropic says, no, we know better than you and better than the law what kind of targets should and should not be shot with our rifles. The military would then respond “lol, lmao even” and then deem them to be a supply chain risk and adopt another rifle instead.

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wrs 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Or they could just not buy the product in the first place. The supply chain risk part is pure retribution.

	▲	smsm42 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Supply chain risk ensures nobody in the chain is buying it and thus becoming subject to Antropic's demand of usage control. They are still free to use it for non-DOD purposes, but if Antropic wants control over DOD, DOD has the right to say "no, we won't have anything to do with you, and thus you're not getting any control over us". I agree it may be unpleasant for Antropic but DOD has the right - I'd say even responsibility - to not submit to control by any private party.
	▲	frumplestlatz 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That’s literally what they’re doing. That’s what supply chain risk means. They don’t buy the product, and the product can’t be used in the things they do buy.

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TSiege 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You’re just describing the exact situation we’re in but substituting a drone for a rifle. If the government is mad they should just partner with a contractor who is less concerned about this, which lo-and-behold they did it’s a company called OpenAI.

Anthropic isn’t a supply chain risk since they easy found someone else

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junofan 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That’s not even the end of the story. Anthropic has sued. They really want to sell their rifles to the government and retain control.