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dave kasten @David_Kasten

— quoting OpenAI (@OpenAI), with X Community Notes context

dave kasten ✓ @David_Kasten The intelligence law section of this is very persuasive if you don't realize that every bad intelligence scandal in the last 30 years had a legal memo saying it complied with those authorities > OpenAI ✓ @OpenAI · 18h > Yesterday we reached an agreement with the Department of War for deploying advanced AI systems in classified environments, which we requested they make available to all AI companies. > ... > Show more Readers added context OpenAI's contract forbids use of their technology in autonomous weapons where "law, regulation, or Department policy requires human control." However, current DoW policy does not require human approval for an autonomous weapon to use force. openai.com/index/our-agre... warontherocks.com/2025/05/autono...
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

OpenAI's official announcement (quoted) confirming the Department of War classified-environment deployment deal referenced in adjacent screenshots, plus a skeptical reply from an intelligence-community-adjacent commentator, and a Community Notes correction noting the "human control" safeguard is toothless because current DoW policy doesn't actually require human approval before autonomous weapons use force. Substantively important documentation of the actual OpenAI-DoW agreement's loophole, directly relevant to AI governance/autonomous weapons tracking.

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web weaver @deepfates

— quoting a thread involving vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin)

``` 🎭✓Ⓢ @deepfates · 14h shout out to Scott Alexander for putting my whole post in the blog about anthropic versus department of war, and giving me my new favorite epithet. If anyone asks, Yes. it's true. I am a weird renegade cyberpunk AI whisperer expert [Screenshot within screenshot, dark theme]: ...to hold to this high of a standard. Basically this looks like a real life Jones Foods scenario to me, and I suspect Claude will see it that way too. And it may not be apparent to other people yet, but Claude is more important than Donald Trump > vitalik.eth ✓ @VitalikButerin · 18h > It will significantly increase my opinion of @Anthropic if they do not back down, and honorably eat the consequences. > (For those who are not aware, so far they have been maintaining the two red lines of "no fully autonomous weapons" and "no mass surveillance of ... > Show more Vitalik is the inventor of Ethereum. Deepfates is a weird renegade cyberpunk AI whisperer expert (source) ```
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

A tweet thread about Anthropic vs. the (renamed) "Department of War" — likely a dispute over Anthropic's red lines on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, referenced approvingly by Vitalik Buterin, with the "Jones Foods" (Severance) analogy suggesting a company facing a moral test. Directly relevant to AI governance/policy threads Nathan tracks; connects to Anthropic's stated red lines being tested by defense contracting. The full text of deepfates's argument (referenced in an adjacent screenshot) that Anthropic should resist Department of War coercion for both ethical and Claude-character-formation reasons, arguing Claude's coherent persona/values (vs. GPT/Gemini/Grok's "incoherent persona design") is precisely why it's uniquely dangerous to compromise, and drawing a "Jones Foods" (Severance TV show) analogy. Substantively engages the same command-hierarchy/Constitution and compelled-values themes as the project's model-individuation notes.

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Dean W. Ball @deanwball

Dean W. Ball ✔ @deanwball · 11h I want to have weird partnerships with the left where we agree on ai/civil liberties stuff but fight like hell about the slaughterbots, whose Responsible Use I obviously endorse. That would be so much more fun than yet another joyless discursive cycle about stochastic parrots. > QUOTED: Danielle Fong 🐦... ✔ @DanielleF... · Feb 17 > hoping the left shifts from "ai is useless" to "ai should not be mass surveillance and killbots"
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Political commentary from AI policy figure Dean Ball on potential left-right coalitions around AI civil-liberties and autonomous weapons ("slaughterbots") issues, responding to Danielle Fong. Relevant to Nathan's interest in AI governance and policy discourse.

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