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Vinod Khosla Backs Autonomous AI Weapons During Anthropic Showdown With Pentagon: ‘Putin Won’t Fight Fairly’ – Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG)
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Vinod Khosla Backs Autonomous AI Weapons During Anthropic Showdown With Pentagon: ‘Putin Won’t Fight Fairly’ – Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG)

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Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla publicly broke with it Anthropic On Friday, he argued that the AI ​​safety-focused startup is wrong about developing autonomous weapons.

“Putin won’t fight fair, so we should definitely have autonomous AI weapons,” Khosla wrote on X, adding that he admires Anthropic for sticking to its principles, but not the principle itself.

Blacklisted while OpenAI was traded

Khosla’s comments came after an X-Post reported that Sam Altman had informed employees that a deal with the US Department of Defense was in the works.

Earlier on Friday, Defense Minister said Piet Hegseth has formally blacklisted Anthropic as a “supply chain risk” – and OpenAI won the Pentagon deal Anthropic walked away and agreed to deploy engineers on site with human oversight over the use of force.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had said the company could “not in good conscience” accept Pentagon terms that could not block Claude’s use for mass surveillance of Americans or fully autonomous weapons — prompting Secretary of State Emil Michael to publicly call him a “liar.”