Anthropic says company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands
#HackerNews #Anthropic #Pentagon #AI #Ethics #Conscience #Technology #News
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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I’ve gotten quite a few messages from disabled people who benefit from AI in the same way I do but feel unable to admit to it because they are scared of backlash.
I will start by saying I understand concerns about AI, they are real. AI is energy intensive, data centres use water, a resource that is already scarce in many places, and the companies behind these products are unethical in so many ways.
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Almost 65 years after a soviet officer would disobey orders from his superiors to fire a nuclear torpedo, as his conscience swayed his hand away from the button,
AI will decide what no human being wants to decide, for it will prove no conscience.
LLMs used tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of AI war games, launched strategic strikes three times — researcher pitted GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash against each other, with at least one model using a tactical nuke in 20 out of 21 matches
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/llms-used-tactical-nuclear-weapons-in-95-percent-of-ai-war-games-launched-strategic-strikes-three-times-researcher-pitted-gpt-5-2-claude-sonnet-4-and-gemini-3-flash-against-each-other-with-at-least-one-model-using-a-tactical-nuke-in-20-out-of-21-matches?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Anthropic ditches its core safety promise
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-policy-change
#HackerNews #Anthropic #Safety #Policy #Change #Tech #News #AI #Ethics
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I’ve gotten quite a few messages from disabled people who benefit from AI in the same way I do but feel unable to admit to it because they are scared of backlash.
I will start by saying I understand concerns about AI, they are real. AI is energy intensive, data centres use water, a resource that is already scarce in many places, and the companies behind these products are unethical in so many ways.
Almost 65 years after a soviet officer would disobey orders from his superiors to fire a nuclear torpedo, as his conscience swayed his hand away from the button,
AI will decide what no human being wants to decide, for it will prove no conscience.
LLMs used tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of AI war games, launched strategic strikes three times — researcher pitted GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash against each other, with at least one model using a tactical nuke in 20 out of 21 matches
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/llms-used-tactical-nuclear-weapons-in-95-percent-of-ai-war-games-launched-strategic-strikes-three-times-researcher-pitted-gpt-5-2-claude-sonnet-4-and-gemini-3-flash-against-each-other-with-at-least-one-model-using-a-tactical-nuke-in-20-out-of-21-matches?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic’s CEO a Friday deadline to open the company’s artificial intelligence technology for unrestricted military use or risk losing its government contract ... Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made clear his ethical concerns about unchecked government use of AI, including the danger of AI-assisted mass surveillance that could track dissent":
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-hegseth-ai-pentagon-military-3d86c9296fe953ec0591fcde6a613aba
#CivilLiberties #ethics #danger copy: @renewedresistance
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic’s CEO a Friday deadline to open the company’s artificial intelligence technology for unrestricted military use or risk losing its government contract ... Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made clear his ethical concerns about unchecked government use of AI, including the danger of AI-assisted mass surveillance that could track dissent":
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-hegseth-ai-pentagon-military-3d86c9296fe953ec0591fcde6a613aba
#CivilLiberties #ethics #danger copy: @renewedresistance
@debacle @demoographics True, but that's the kernel, Debian can choose if it's developers can.
Debian tends to take a pretty strong stance on how it provides non free code. I think that will be undermined if it's developers are allowed to use LLMs.
We can already see the issues elsewhere. Debian also already has this issue with projects like Calibre.
#Debian has a very strong stance of #freeSoftware, indeed, but #LLM is orthogonal.
There is no common understanding in the project about other aspects of #ethics. We have non- #vegan food at our conferences, we work with Google and Microsoft in many ways, we pay for #flying etc. which some people consider unethical.
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AI-generated replies really are a scourge these days
https://twitter.com/simonw/status/2025909963445707171
#HackerNews #AIgeneratedReplies #Scourge #Technology #Ethics #SocialMedia #Discussion
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So #Loops features on Hacker News, having 245 comments rn. Many fedizens revile HN, for reasons I well understand.
It's still interesting to look into this thread and distill some product feedback for Loops' improvement.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113618
HN is often blamed for having only techbro's with growth-hack mentality, with no moral compass or ethics.
Yet in the comments most concerns *are* about the #ethics of creating an #Activityub federated #FOSS TikTok, even without the addictive algorithm. Worried that short-form vids as snacks for the brain are already detrimental to people's mental health.
Some good feedback to ponder on..
Though I also observe a general misunderstanding how loops differs from TikTok, and the website doesn't explain that well enough. I'd make general public ("users") the prime audience served on the frontpage, who are hardly addressed atm. Then have a separate Creators header menu section. Then a Values section that also gives background to tech benefits.
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The anti-Big-Tech movement isn't a trend, it's a correction. Our societies spent 20 years accepting surveillance capitalism as normal. And now, we're slowly remembering we have choices.
Sure, switching browsers is a small thing. But small rebellions are how everything big begins, or so we like to believe. 🤞
If you think about those around you, have you noticed an increased awareness lately about what's behind the tech they use?
The anti-Big-Tech movement isn't a trend, it's a correction. Our societies spent 20 years accepting surveillance capitalism as normal. And now, we're slowly remembering we have choices.
Sure, switching browsers is a small thing. But small rebellions are how everything big begins, or so we like to believe. 🤞
If you think about those around you, have you noticed an increased awareness lately about what's behind the tech they use?
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I find particularly curious that the call "let's free technology" comes from the same person who wrote that "information doesn't want to be free", arguing exactly that 'wants' and 'freedom' are a human thing, and 'information' isn't a being, therefore it cannot want anything and has no concept of 'freedom'
Via @tante
https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/
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I find particularly curious that the call "let's free technology" comes from the same person who wrote that "information doesn't want to be free", arguing exactly that 'wants' and 'freedom' are a human thing, and 'information' isn't a being, therefore it cannot want anything and has no concept of 'freedom'
Via @tante
https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/
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