Oppenheimer Didn't Have an Acceptable Use Policy

Anthropic has drawn a public line on military use of its models. The physics community spent the better part of the twentieth century working out what it means to draw that line after you have already built the thing. As a physicist watching this unfold, I find the parallels clarifying and the differences more unsettling than the parallels.

3 March 2026 · 11 min · Sebastian Spicker