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The Department of War is making a huge mistake.

2026-03-11 Science & Technology
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Dwarkesh Patel
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My thoughts on the Anthropic and Department of War conflict. Read the transcript here: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dow-anthropic TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 Anthropic vs The Pentagon 00:04:16 The overhangs of tyranny 00:05:54 AI structurally favors mass surveillance 00:08:25 Alignment...to whom? 00:13:55 Coordination not worth the costs

Top Comments (10)

@adamonius1 2026-03-11

🔥"Are we really racing to beat China in AI just so we can adopt the most ghoulish parts of their system?" 🔥

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@friewire 2026-03-11

These are the highest stakes negotiations in the history of humanity. Literary, are we optimizing for human happiness or efficient control of the population?

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@jasonpace4891 2026-03-12

Incredibly happy to see you speaking out. Everyone needs to be clear here.

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@JasonWhittle1 2026-03-11

I reckon this will be an iconic video that future humans will look back upon.

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@dwjx71 2026-03-11

Can't express how much I loved this essay!! Your insight comparing the government regulating specific use cases for specific technologies during the industrial revolution got me through a bit of an impasse I've been stuck in for a decent amount of time on the "when and/or should the government simply take over AGI from the frontier labs at some point?" question. Thanks, Dwarkesh!

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@TheLostAmerican420 2026-03-11

Department of DEFENSE! Changing the name would require an act of Congress.

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@aryankulkarni949 2026-03-11

excellent articulation and on point regarding saturation of models

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@AdiSharmaPiano 2026-03-11

Thank you for this Dwarkesh!

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@bhavulgauri7832 2026-03-11

thanks for writing and speaking this up!

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@tommiz.__1 2026-03-12

Thank you for not staying silent!

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