I am less struck by the fact that Anthropic is waging this battle, and more struck by the fact that no one else is. You know, in Silicon Valley. There was a long history of wanting to avoid these kinds of entanglements with the military, of wanting to ensure that the software that they were making would only benefit people. You know, when you look at the quotes from the Pentagon side of this, you know, they really think that, like, they are buying a software product here, Like, the next instantiation of Google or, you know, something like Microsoft Word or Excel. You know, if the military buys a big contract for Excel, it doesn’t come with a little thing that says, like, you can’t use this to, you know, conduct domestic surveillance.
