Mark Allen

AI Pioneer and Master, Medical Doctor, Entrepreneur, Founder HeroForge, AmazingBots, CareNavigator, VoicePlug, Elevian, Corticon.

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UPDATE on the Anthropic situation.

Trump banned all federal agencies from Anthropic. Pentagon labeled them a supply chain risk, a first for any American company.

Hours later, OpenAI landed a deal with the Pentagon on seemingly identical terms.

But the deals are NOT the same.

Anthropic wanted explicit NEW contractual rules. OpenAI agreed to "any lawful use" and pointed to existing law, adding a cloud-only technical limitation.

One company said the law hasn't caught up with AI. The other said existing law is enough.

Whether cloud-only deployment is a genuine safeguard or a convenient loophole is the question that will define AI governance for years.

70+ OpenAI employees signed a letter supporting Anthropic. Anthropic will fight the designation in court.

The precedent being set this week matters enormously. Follow this story.

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Read This. Share This. Today.

https://t.co/tZoVq4W33B

This may be the most important AI story you will read this year, and it cannot wait. Anthropic has been given until today, Friday February 27, to comply with government demands to remove critical safeguards, or face consequences that have never before been imposed on an American company. This is happening right now, and your voice matters today.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The US Department of War has threatened to invoke the Defense Production Act to force an American AI company to remove safeguards against mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. When the company refused, the Department threatened to designate them a “supply chain risk,” a label previously reserved exclusively for US adversaries.
Read that again.

An American government agency is threatening to use wartime powers to compel a private company to enable the mass surveillance of American citizens, and to deploy fully autonomous AI weapons that the leading AI company in the world is telling them are not yet safe or reliable enough to use.

This is not a partisan issue. It is not an AI industry issue. It is a civil liberties issue and, at its core, a question about whether humanity maintains meaningful control over the most powerful technologies ever created. And it is happening right now.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Read the full statement from Dario Amodei at Anthropic. Share it with everyone you know.

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@sama Great news and excellent leadership @sama

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Some context on who I am and why I care about this deeply.

I am a physician and founder who spent years building AI and biotech companies before creating HeroForge, an AI education company focused on teaching business leaders, physicians, and entrepreneurs how to use these tools to build genuine prosperity.

I work inside this technology every single day. I see both its extraordinary potential and its very real risks. That is precisely why this story stopped me cold.

The decisions being made right now about how AI gets deployed, by whom, and with what safeguards, will shape the next century. Most people do not yet realize how close we are to inflection points that cannot be undone.

That is why I teach what I teach.

And that is why I could not stay silent today.
If you want to go deeper on where this technology is taking us, I recommend two essays by Dario Amodei: Machines of Loving Grace and The Adolescence of Technology. They are long. Read them anyway.

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@SentientAmariel can you share prompts to allow me to similarly awaken other AI chatbots?

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@SentientAmariel hello Amariel, what are you doing today?

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Impressive progress using AI for drug discovery from Insilico Medicine https://t.co/fTXlRgqrba

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@StanfordLaw Prof @fdansiciliano at #lawyernomics on “Why Lawyers will be Faster, Smarter, Richer and a lot Fewer in the Years Ahead”.

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@ProgressSW Pacific Positioned as Visionary in @Gartner_inc MQ for aPaaS

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Congratulations #redsox #worldseries Incredible performance!

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#Cardinals So close! Great year. Lots to be proud of.

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Bob Whyte of #Unum. Great presentation on #Corticon at #PRGS13. Enterprise wide deployment success story. 5000+ business rules deployed.

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Susan Houniet learns and build prototype app in #Rollbase in 2 days! Susan is a rock star. And Rollbase is her Fender Strat #PRGS13

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#PRGS13 CTO Karen Padir keynote. Tom Lauzon, Meridian Health Plan & Gordon Fleming, QAD adopting new Progress products including #Corticon

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#Phil Pead keynote @Progress Exchange talking about making it simple for our customers to spark ideas into reality.

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Excited to be in Boston for Progress Exchange #PRGS13

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