Well... Call me a heretic. But I would prefer that government doesn't use classified AI tools for mass surveillance regardless of politics.

The fact the current leaders are SO political and in my opinion so opaque... Makes the possibilities really quite dire. The adminstration or a *future* admin could say that XYZ political idea is a threat or 'destabilizing' or 'rooted in extremism...'  then use AI to target those things and I think that's wrong. Just because you can doesn't mean that you should

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Right which is why what any side claims in public as to their reasons is irrelevant. If the DoD told Anthropic "ok we won't use it for these reasons", would anyone believe that anyway? The words of politicians and the government are completely untrustworthy, that it's meaningless to read anything but theatre into the whole situation, on 

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Trump Orders Federal Agencies to ‘immediately cease’ Using Anthropic

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Right which is why what any side claims in public as to their reasons is irrelevant. If the DoD told Anthropic "ok we won't use it for these reasons", would anyone believe that anyway? The words of politicians and the government are completely untrustworthy, that it's meaningless to read anything but theatre into the whole situation, on **both** Anthropic and the DoD's side