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Earlier this year, the US government approached Anthropic to aid it's department of war with AI capabilities and seeked to sign a contract worth 200 Mn USD (and more in the long term). Anthropic had two conditions for letting US DOW utilize their models and to proceed with the contract: These models should not be used for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons (definition being the ones that do not need human intervention to be unleashed). When scrutinized by Anthropic on whether their models would be used in these ways, US government didn't agree- as a result, Anthropic refused to work with them and the US government signed the same contract with OpenAI & flagged Anthropic as a "supply chain risk"

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