{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":""All Lawful Use": Much More Than You Wanted To Know","description":"Last Friday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared AI company Anthropic a \u201csupply chain risk\u201d, the first time this designation has ever been applied to a US company. The trigger for the move was Anthropic\u2019s refusal to allow the Department of War to use their AIs for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. A few hours later, Hegseth and Sam Altman declared an agreement-in-principle for OpenAI\u2019s models to be used in the niche vacated by Anthropic. Altman stated that he had received guarantees that OpenAI\u2019s models wouldn\u2019t be used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons either, but given Hegseth\u2019s unwillingness to concede these points with Anthropic, observers speculated that the safeguards in Altman\u2019s contract must be weaker or, in a worst-case scenario, completely toothless. The debate centers on the Department of War\u2019s demand that AIs be permitted for \u201call lawful use\u201d. Anthropic worried that mass surveillance and autonomous weaponry would de facto fall in this category; Hegseth and Altman have tried to reassure the public that they won\u2019t, and the parts of their agreement that have leaked to the public cite the statutes that Altman expects to constrain this category. Altman\u2019s initial statement seemed to suggest additional prohibitions, but on a closer read, provide little tangible evidence of meaningful further restrictions. Some alert ACX readers1 have done a deep dive into national security law to try to untangle the situation. Their conclusion mirrors that of Anthropic and the majority of Twitter commenters: this is not enough. Current laws against domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons have wide loopholes in practice. Further, many of the rules which do exist can be changed by the Department of War at any time. Although OpenAI\u2019s national security lead said that \u201cwe intended [the phrase \u2018all lawful use\u2019] to mean [according to the law] at the time the contract is signed\u2019, this is not how contract law usually works, and not how the provision is likely to be enforced2. Therefore, these guarantees are not helpful. To learn more about the details, let\u2019s look at the law: https:\/\/www.astralcodexten.com\/p\/all-lawful-use-much-more-than-you ","author_name":"Astral Codex Ten Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/sscpodcast.libsyn.com\/website","html":"