If you aren’t familiar with his actual stance, you have been told a warped version of Warfighter Dario’s vision.
Partially autonomous weapons, like those used today in Ukraine, are vital to the defense of democracy. Fully autonomous weapons (those that take humans out of the loop entirely and automate selecting and engaging targets) may prove critical for our national defense. We have offered to work directly with the Department of War on R\&D to improve the reliability of these systems.
Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters.
Dario Amodei, Warmonger
Anthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions. We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner.
Dario Amodei, Just Following Orders
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
You mean drones? You’re talking about drones. What’s wrong with drones?
They had a contract with the Pentagon. They literally deal with military operations on a regular basis.
Hell, most of the pivotal technology developed in the last thousand years started as a military invention before civilian use. Including this internet thing you’re arguing on right now.
XLE@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Okay, so you’re just a straight up “right-wing” warmonger yourself.
Jesus Christ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_the_United_States_drone_strikes
Cool Trump apologia.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/28/what-countries-has-trump-attacked-since-returning-to-office
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Far from it. You seem unnecessarily reactionary, ready to hard-accuse anybody that doesn’t agree 100% with your ideals. Again, absolutism is a bad thing, and the world is far more nuanced than your beliefs give it credit for.
You do not know me. Do not pretend that you do.
I could just as easily produce civilian casualties from the Iraq War, the Vietnam war, WWII, whatever. Shit, the US can never repay the terrible terrible debt it caused against the citizens of Laos.
None of that damage was caused by drones. The weapons change, but the horrible military decisions, unfortunately, do not.
This has nothing to do with LLMs. These are human decisions, made by terrible human beings that deserve to get shoved into the frontlines like the draft dodgers they are.
XLE@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Okay, right-wing reactionary. Thanks for expanding on the NRA slogan and expanding your warmonger rhetoric to defend Raytheon and Northrop Grumman. They’re just making the guns!
But even if I take your entire pro-military-industrial-complex rhetorical stance as granted, Warmonger Dario Amodei said he wants to develop fully autonomous weapons, which is a step even beyond your bloodthirst. I hope. So you don’t need to keep defending him… Right?