A Cookie for Dario? — Anthropic and selling death
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Anil Dash argues that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's refusal to modify Claude for Pentagon use cases that could enable war crimes deserves acknowledgment but not excessive praise. He contends the bar for ethical behavior has been set dangerously low by Silicon Valley's broader embrace of authoritarian politics. Dash outlines practical business reasons — procurement complexity, employee retention, brand positioning — that made Anthropic's decision relatively easy, and places it in historical context from IBM enabling the Holocaust and apartheid to Facebook's role in the Rohingya genocide. He calls on the tech industry to stop normalizing complicity in crimes against humanity and to hold companies to a higher standard.
