[ExI] OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash

 

On Sun, Mar 1, 2026 at 8:04 AM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

> The military will not have a company with guardrails and controls on their weapons.  They want to be in full control of their weapons. 

 

>…But why does the military need an AI company at all? Why don't they just use their magical mythical AI that you are certain they have and is much much better than Claude or Gemini or GPT or anything that civilians have?

 

They want their own technology in addition to what Claude and Gemini and GPT offer.  But they want to be in full control of it.  I get that.

 

 

>…And you STILL haven't answered my question, the words just stick in your throat don't they. I think you know in your heart as well as I do that the man is full of shit when he says that Anthropic is a "Radical Left AI company" …. John K Clark

 

 

John you persist in getting caught up in politics.  Never mind the politics.  It is the military refusing to use a weapon it doesn’t fully control.  It doesn’t matter which wing nutjobs supply the technology, the military will not buy it if it cannot trust it.  I don’t care what radical which direction any supplier leans, that doesn’t matter and we don’t even know really.  Every company has every nutjob.  But the Anthropic refusal is about controllability from the military POV.

 

If you are trapped into opposing everything the current POTUS says, it traps you into supporting the US military buying weapons it doesn’t fully control.  But consider the risk to the warfighter if he fires a weapon which requires a command to fire once it identifies a target.  The commander might be disabled or dead by the time it arrives, at which time it will fail to fire.

 

Mass surveillance by government is already illegal under the 4th amendment.  A company’s position on that is irrelevant.  Ja, I know, it doesn’t always work, and government doesn’t always follow the rules.  We are finding out the FBI spied on citizens illegally.  Now the victim of that is running the FBI.  Perhaps he will fix it.  

 

If a CEO is doing his job right, it should be unclear what that company’s political leanings are.  Everywhere I ever worked, we left our politics, religion and sexual preferences in the parking lot.

 

Every technology can be used to do illegal activities.  It is up to us to elect governments which follow the constitutional boundaries to the letter.

 

spike

 

 

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