By justina colmena ~biz in espionage —

U.S. military rejects proprietary software with peacenik strings attached

Strange company with secret software and hidden restrictions on its use embedded in mission-critical areas

Anthropic CEO says it ‘cannot in good conscience accede’ to Pentagon’s demands for AI use
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the artificial intelligence company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s demands to allow wider use of its technology.
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Proprietary software is embedded in mission-critical areas in the military with private or proprietary company policy “hooks” embedded in U.S. military policy.

Hegseth told Fox News last February, weeks after becoming defense secretary, that “ultimately, we want lawyers who give sound constitutional advice and don’t exist to attempt to be roadblocks to anything.” //The same month, Hegseth also fired the top lawyers for the Army and the Air Force without explanation. The Navy’s top lawyer had resigned shortly after the election in late 2024.

So there's an AI court-martial of some sort, about which we don't have the full details and perhaps never will.

This is good reason for the name change of Department of Defense to its former designation as the Department of War. If and when we join the U.S. armed forces, we’re here to kill, not to develop a good conscience sabotaging U.S. goals and objectives by committing treason or by using unauthorized battlefield diplomacy with the enemy. This is where we are simply “following orders” (as it would have been or might be translated from the German language) to stay alive, and it is never a lawful order to lay down our arms or admit defeat.

I say this as a person who has been heavily targeted in the past for recruitment by enemy spies and critical infrastructure terrorists, and especially so at the university where I graduated with degrees in technical subjects. Local military authorities and recruiters have been very presumptuous of my supposed friendship with enemy forces. Perhaps it is the case that they simply do not trust me if there is a presumed “offer” and a presumed acceptance of that enemy “offer” on my part. That is precisely what U.S. counterintelligence operatives would presumably be looking for, but their very presumptuousness indicates that some of them are already compromised.