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"All Lawful Use": Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Astral Codex Ten Podcast · Apr 2, 2026 · 20 min
Last Friday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared AI company Anthropic a " supply chain risk ", the first time this designation has ever been applied to a US company. The trigger for the move was Anthropic's refusal to allow the Department of War to use their AIs for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. A few hours later, Hegseth and Sam Altman declared an agreement-in-principle for…