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Michael: Anthropic's First Amendment retaliation claim against Pentagon will fail
“I think the notion that a First Amendment claim is going to hold up is, is, would be shocking, because that means that the government has no choice to make.”
Michael: AI targeting tools keep identical rules of engagement and approvals
“It's, you have the same rules of engagement, the same approval system. What you now have is better aggregation and synthesis of the data that you would already use to make that decision.”
Michael: Operational speed prevented U.S. casualties in Venezuela operation
“Look what happened in Venezuela. The speed at which that execution of that operation happened meant that we didn't have any casualties on our side.”
Michael: China is conducting the largest military buildup in world history
“I think if you think about the biggest military buildup in world history in China, and you think of it, you've seen the purge of the generals and sort of the military hierarchy there,”
Michael: Anthropic contract banned AI use for weapons engineering and kinetics
“The provisions that were in the contracts that ultimately serve the Department of War said you can't use it for planning kinetic actions, you can't use it to develop weapon systems, so all the science, engineering, aerodynamics, all...”
Michael: Anthropic demanded Pentagon exceed mass surveillance laws in AI contracts
“They wanted us to rewrite the law because they thought Congress was just behind. They weren't understanding that new tech allowed new capabilities, but again, it's not our mission.”
Michael: Pentagon AI systems require human authorization, not an autonomous 'Skynet'
“It's not like, it's not a Skynet thing, like, no. It is a tool like any other tool that you might have on your computer, or in your war room, or with your team, except it's on your computer, visualized where, but you still have Checks and balances. You still h…”
Michael: Palantir serves as an AI orchestration layer for military data
“I think the genesis of what Palantir does is an orchestration layer on top of data streams that we, data that we put in it and say, here's the data we would normally use for any battlefield operation, plus an AI to help you synthesize it. So all those things a…”
Michael: DoD Has 35-Page Directive Governing Human Oversight of AI Systems
“And we've written that there's a 35 page directive at the DoD that talks about
Human oversight and how we manage these systems, and we're constantly updating that and making sure we have the right controls on it.”
Michael: The Term 'LLM' Will Disappear as Models Become Multimodal
“So that's why LLMs, I think, is going to go away as a
The term, because they're not large language models only.
They're visual.
They're going to be used for robotics.
They're going to be used for a lot of things.”
Pentagon Drone Dominance Program Requires Zero Supply Chain Dependency on Adversaries
“So that is one of the requirements is that the drones that we use at the Drone Dominance Program don't have a dependency on, on adversaries.”
Emil Michael: Every frontier AI company will develop cyber capabilities adversaries will copy
“Cyber capabilities that are almost here, are certainly going to come from every frontier model company. At some point, it's certainly going to be you know, try to be distilled by the adversaries are going to be, you know, the next wave of innovation from these…”
Michael: Anthropic was first to aggressively pitch US government AI services
“They were the first to aggressively try to provide service to the government after the Biden administration's executive order about AI because they were, and again, you see this in the marketplace too, OpenAI was more focused on the consumer, with ChatGPT and …”
Michael: US is seeing greatest defense tech VC boom in history
“There's defense, the greatest VC boom in defense tech, In a country's history.”
Michael: Pentagon will move increasingly toward business-oriented contracts
“I think you'll see us moving a lot more toward business, business-oriented contracts, which is good for them and good for us.”
Emil Michael: AI model upgrade cycles have compressed to three months
“How many, the upgrade cycles for these things are now compressing to now three-ish months. So every three months you have a new set of model weights, a new set of guardrails, a new set of bugs in the way the model behaves, the way it hallucinates or doesn't ha…”