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Hegseth's strange comment that "We will not employ AI models that won't allow you to fight wars" during his speech at SpaceX on January 12 makes more sense now in light of what we are learning about the disagreement with Anthropic over use of its models.

Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute

Anthropic has not agreed to the Pentagon's terms and defense officials are getting fed up after months of difficult negotiations.

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"In this paper, I argue that although LLMs are also doing many other things (discovering drugs, improving medical care, reworking business practices, etc.), LLMs are on a path to dominate the production of, the analysis of, the attacks on, and the defense of software." www.rand.org/pubs/perspec...

Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and National Security

The author investigates why national security decisionmakers are ill-prepared for AI's impact on cybersecurity, offers solutions, and discusses the paper's broader implications for organizations' assi...

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Why AI generated images are going to damage quality defence reporting AI slop is being used by ‘quality’ and ‘fanboy’ defence blogs and news websites as well as mainstream media. It’s terrible news! A rant 🧵

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