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Before today, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had threatened to label Anthropic a “supply chain risk” if it did not agree to withdraw safeguards that insist Claude not be used for mass surveillance against Americans or in fully autonomous weapons. In a post on X published after President Trump’s statement, Hegseth said he was “directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic.”
Why do I, my mother-in-law, and Nava all knock on wood? None of us really know. Perhaps it’s a legacy of the Bronze Age; perhaps it’s a meme from Victorian Britain. What is certain is that it’s not something a robot with an LLM-based brain is going to do habitually, just as robots will never share in mental frameworks deriving from quirks of our physical architecture, like handedness.