Pentagon Abandons AI Safety to Pursue Autonomous Killing Machines #
In a chilling expansion of the military-industrial complex, the U.S. Department of Defense has officially blacklisted AI developer Anthropic, citing the firm's refusal to remove ethical safeguards as an 'unacceptable risk' to national security. The pivot signals a total commitment to algorithmic supremacy, as the Pentagon reallocates hundreds of millions in contracts to OpenAI and Amazon Web Services. These new agreements mandate 'any lawful use' clauses, effectively stripping away human-in-the-loop requirements for lethal autonomous weapons. We are witnessing the final…