Pentagon drops Anthropic for Musk's Grok in major AI shakeuphttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/pentagon-drops-anthropic-for-musk-s-grok-in-major-ai-shakeup/ar-AA1X3Ceb?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=d06ba923946547aea16eef1916bd871b&ei=53 🔗 [Link: msn.com/en-us/news/technology/pentagon-drops-anthropic-for-musk-s-grok-in-major-ai-shakeup/ar-AA1X3Ceb/]C. da Costa (25 Feb 2025)
The AI chatbot you use for work presentations just got weaponized. Pentagon officials confirmed they're replacing Anthropic's Claude with xAI's Grok in classified military systems-not because Grok performs better, but because Elon Musk's company agreed to enable mass surveillance of U.S. citizens and fully autonomous weapons without ethical guardrails.
The dispute reveals AI's ethical fault lines. Anthropic refused Pentagon demands to make Claude available for "all lawful purposes," including domestic surveillance operations that would make your privacy concerns look quaint. Meanwhile, xAI signed on without restrictions.
This isn't academic philosophy-these decisions directly affect the consumer AI tools millions use daily.
Claude isn't some casual Pentagon experiment. The AI system reportedly helped orchestrate a Venezuelan operation to exfiltrate President Nicolás Maduro through Anthropic's partnership with data giant Palantir. Replacing Claude means disrupting classified workflows that defense officials have spent months perfecting.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is reportedly preparing to label Anthropic a "supply chain risk" if they maintain ethical safeguards. Google and OpenAI face identical pressure-accept "all lawful purposes" or lose government contracts worth hundreds of millions.
According to defense officials quoted by Axios, both companies are in active discussions about classified system access. The message is clear: play ball with surveillance and weapons development, or get benched.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For some reason, this does not make me feel safer...
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