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Today, we look at Netflix’s War Machine.
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The Big Sip
The take: Netflix released a film about soldiers fighting an autonomous killing machine, the same week the Pentagon punished the only AI lab that refused to build real ones.
What happened: War Machine dropped on Netflix on 6 March, starring Alan Ritchson battling an alien robot of unknown origin, one day after the Pentagon formally designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk" for refusing to drop its ban on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
Why it matters: The film's central mystery is whether the killing machine is man-made or AI-controlled; the Pentagon's position is that the company building its actual AI shouldn't get to ask that question.
What to watch: Anthropic will challenge the designation in court, while OpenAI's competing Pentagon deal already includes the same two restrictions Anthropic was blacklisted for requesting.
The film is rated R for "strong violence, grisly images, and language." The Pentagon's letter didn't come with a content warning.
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