The U.S. Government is now at war with Anthropic. The reason is that the government wants to be able to use the company’s A.I. model to do mass surveillance of U.S. citizens, and also to enable drones to kill people without any human supervision.
The folks at Anthropic tried to explain that the technology, which was not designed for military use, cannot be guaranteed to operate safely for such purposes. Unfortunately our current administration seems to care a lot more about Pete Hegseth’s pretty hair than about the possibility of runaway A.I. drones going on a mass killing spree.
Maybe we should sit those government folks down and make them watch the “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” segment from Walt Disney’s Fantasia. It presents an excellent metaphor for what can happen when A.I. is unchecked and unsupervised.
Besides, a children’s cartoon might work better than any sort of reasoned argument. It’s important to speak to people at their own level.