According to Brookings Institution’s Thomas Wright, pressure from the Pentagon could make tech companies more cautious about working with the government. If companies take the wrong step, he warns, officials could “either partially nationalize your company or… ruin your company and burn it to the ground by designating you as supply chain risk.”
Some firms are still leaning in. Anthropic—led by CEO Dario Amodei—had taken the rare step of placing its AI models on classified military systems and engaging in national security work. But in recent weeks, the Pentagon officially designated Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” an unprecedented label usually reserved for foreign adversaries.
Wright’s view: AI systems should still have a human safeguard. He explains that means keeping a person “on the loop” and able to intervene or shut down a weapon system if necessary.
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