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

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 2:17 PM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> What was your simple question please?

In the interests of getting this to an answer, without implying
support for either side or a third position, I went back through the
chain.  I believe I have identified the question John refers to:

> Do you agree with He Who Must Not Be Named that Anthropic is a "Radical Left AI company" run by "Leftwing nut jobs" because they don't think an AI conducting mass surveillance on the American people or an AI controlling a lethal weapon without a human being in the decision pipeline are good ideas? Our drunken Secretary Of Defense, oh I'm sorry I mean Secretary Of War, insists that never in a million years would the military even dream of doing either of those things, and yet he absolutely insists they have the ability to do both of those things anyway. Don't you find that just a teeny tiny bit suspicious?

This is his question, not mine, to you.