Meredith Barnett

former United States Marine proud mom of 2 boys

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

At high stakes Pentagon meeting today Sec Hegseth gave Anthropic head Dario Amodei ultimatum to allow the Pentagon to use Anthropic’s AI model for mass domestic surveillance and kinetic autonomous operations without human oversight or face censure and be labeled “supply chain threat.”

According to a source familiar:
The meeting was cordial, not a dressing down, not a screaming match, all business.

Hegseth praised the Anthropic product but then said if by Friday Anthropic does not agree to the Pentagon’s use of the model without restrictions, then Hegseth would terminate the contract and use the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to comply AND/OR designate Anthropic a supply chain threat and national security risk. (EDIT: Both are mutually exclusive. You can’t be a supply chain risk but also invoke the DPA to say that the country needs this product so much for national security that it will override any restrictions put in place by the company that limits govt access to the product. Both cannot be true.)

At issue is Anthropic’s two stipulations that its advanced AI model currently used in the Pentagon’s classified systems is NOT used for autonomous kinetic operations (Anthropic currently requires human oversight of autonomous operations when used to kill things for safety reasons because they don’t know how the autonomous system will react and could even endanger soldiers using the model; soldiers and others could lose control of the model and automatically start killing large groups without humans in the “kill chain.”) Second Anthropic bars its models from being used for mass domestic surveillance. Hegseth wants these restrictions lifted.

According to a source familiar with the talks, Anthropic has never objected to the use of its models for “legitimate military operations.” It also told the Hegseth it never complained to the Pentagon or Palantir about the use of its models in the Maduro raid.

[Meredith Barnett @babmrb7701]

@jason_kint @joshgerstein @grok tdrl this for me

[Meredith Barnett @babmrb7701]

@Domidest @HorrorGorl @grok did Pam Bondi say that if they prosecuted everybody in the Epstein files that the system would collapse

[Meredith Barnett @babmrb7701]

@will_linkhart @GoMocsFB So excited to watch you play in TN!!

[ProPublica @propublica]

Immigration officers who shatter car windows aren’t being disciplined — they’re being promoted.

One officer who smashed a window in front of a local TV reporter got a senior ICE position overseeing operations on the East Coast.
https://t.co/hfwnjsMbMo

[Meredith Barnett @babmrb7701]

@basedamericana @SecWar Wait. What? He is not allowed to remind service members of the UCMJ?

[Meredith Barnett @babmrb7701]

@DigitalGalX @grok is this administration really cutting 35k healthcare jobs at the VA?

[Meredith Barnett @babmrb7701]

@MexicanBTCWhale @DigitalGalX @grok @grok are they really cutting 35k jobs at the VA?

[Meredith Barnett @babmrb7701]

@KMalarik13791 @DigitalGalX @POTUS Do you support veterans? The VA Announced 35k job losses to current medical staff to veterans. Make it make sense

[Meredith Barnett @babmrb7701]

@angry_nj @DigitalGalX Nothing for vets. Just AD. And don’t get me wrong- they deserve it! Unfortunately they are cutting 35k healthcare jobs (nurses, doctors, etc) at the VA. So once again, veterans get the shaft.

[Meredith Barnett @babmrb7701]

@Dec1391 @DigitalGalX I’m also a former marine and fiscal conservative. The OBBB is the polar opposite of fiscal conservatism. Our debt has already skyrocketed under Trumps’s 11 mos in office. I wish more people looked at the facts instead of listening to sound bites that are appealing to them. 😞

[Meredith Barnett @babmrb7701]

@afra_art56 He’s perfection. ❤️

[Blessing chidera @blissartbc]

It took me about 420 hours to make this with pencil. Can you use 1 sec of your time to like and repost thanks 😊

[Meredith Barnett @babmrb7701]

@Angry_Staffer I’m still down over $30k

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants."

In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.

[Meredith Barnett @babmrb7701]

@Harri_Est 🇺🇸

[Richard Branson @richardbranson]

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

[Meredith Barnett @babmrb7701]

@FrMatthewLC Stop doomscrolling on X before bed.

[Meredith Barnett @babmrb7701]

@VSjog36082 @ByMikeBaker Spoken like a true Putin-loving Russian

[Kristy Greenberg @KGreenberg_]

Millions of Americans took a page out of Harrison Butker’s book and told the woman most qualified for the position to step aside for a totally unfit man. Same old story. Sadly, America is not ready to turn the page.