Q and according to Emil, Dario was in a meeting and, and was busy, and wasn't really respecting the deadline, which maybe he felt was kind of artificial, but in hindsight now looks like it was a significant, because the Department of War was, you know, taking the, the, Uh, country into a conflict and wanted to know, hey, can we lean on one of our, one of our AI partners?
A I don't know. I mean, I, I think that seems pretty arbitrary to have cut, I mean, I'm hesitant to speculate. I don't know what was going on. I don't know the angles. I think, and that's why I didn't sort of delve too deeply into it, and I also think some of the specifics like this supply chain risk probably overbroad, and almost certainly the way it was stated in the tweet is definitely overbroad if you actually go and re-read the statute. I think the goal that I was, and again, this is where I wish I had sort of put more caveats to say, look, I'm not actually talking about all that stuff. I don't really care. I do care, but that's not the point of this article. The point of this article is there's all this talk about alignment. That's why I put that in, in the headline. And On one hand, alignment is aligning AI with humanity generally, but for the foreseeable future, and you could have a philosophical argument about the long-term viability of nation states in the age of the internet, much less the age of AI and whatever that might be, that certainly is, you know, a more pressing conversation than probably ever before. Anthropic exists in the context of the United States, and That's why I put that quote, you may not be interested in politics, but politics has an interest in you. What is politics? War by other means. You might not be interested in that. It is going to have an in…
AI assessment note: “I'm hesitant to speculate. I don't know what was going on... That's not the point”