Pentagon Declares Anthropic a Supply Chain Clusterfuck Over Military AI Spat

Well, isn’t this just fucking perfect. The Pentagon—those paranoid bastards who think every USB stick is a Chinese spy—have officially slapped Anthropic with a “supply chain risk” designation because someone finally told them that military-grade AI might have ethical implications beyond “does it kill the right colored people?”

It turns out the Defense Department got their knickers in a twist over Anthropic’s involvement in military AI projects. Apparently, when you take a company founded by ex-OpenAI safety nerds who wring their hands about “AI alignment” and then try to use their shit for autonomous warfare, you get a bit of a fucking conflict. Who knew? Besides everyone with two brain cells to rub together, I mean.

Now the brass are terrified that Anthropic’s supply chain—which includes enough Google and Amazon money to make a Swiss banker weep with joy—might be compromised by foreign interests. Because clearly, the real danger isn’t the US military building Skynet in a basement somewhere, but that Claude might secretly be transmitting data via satellite to some guy in a bunker in Belarus. Christ on a bike.

This designation means defense contractors can’t use Anthropic’s models without jumping through flaming regulatory hoops while juggling chainsaws. It’s the government’s way of saying “we want to use your AI for morally questionable shit, but we don’t trust you not to spill the beans to the Russians.” The irony is thick enough to spread on toast.

So now Anthropic joins the exclusive club of companies deemed too risky for the military-industrial complex—a club that apparently includes everything made outside of a dusty bunker in Virginia. Meanwhile, the Pentagon will keep using Windows XP and fax machines to plan their next illegal invasion. Priorities, right?

Read the original article here, if you can stomach the bureaucratic wankery

Speaking of supply chains, I once had a luser complain that their keyboard wasn’t working during a “critical” deadline. Turned out they’d spilled an entire caramel macchiato into it and let it ferment for three days. I told them the sugar had crystallized the circuits and the only fix was to rinse it with distilled vodka. They dumped a bottle of Absolut into the keyboard, then wondered why it caught fire when they plugged it back in. I told them that’s what “hot-swappable” means. They believed me. I sleep fine at night.

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