Remarks at UT on the Pentagon/Anthropic situation

Last Thursday, my friend and colleague Sam Baker, in UT Austin’s English department, convened an “emergency panel” here about the developing Pentagon/Anthropic situation, and asked me to speak at it. Even though the situation has continued to develop since then, I thought my prepared remarks for the panel might be of interest. At the bottom, I include a few additional thoughts. Hi! I’m Scott Aaronson! I teach CS here at UT. While my background is in quantum computing, I’ve spent the past four...