The Pentagon officially designated Anthropic a supply chain risk after they failed to reach agreement on the amount of control the military should have over artificial intelligence models, including its operate in autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. When the $200 million Anthropic contract fell apart, the Department of Defense turned instead to OpenAI, which accepted and then watched ChatGPT uninstalls raise by 295%. As the stakes continue to rise, the question remains: How much unrestricted access should the military have to the AI model?
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