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Just because something is legal does not mean it is safe

September 28, 2026
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Some will say: “if the use is legal, a private company should not be able to veto the state”. That is a coherent position, but it has a catch. What is it? Legal does not automatically mean prudent, proportionate or socially acceptable. Mass surveillance may have a legal basis in certain circumstances and still pose

Some will say: “if the use is legal, a private company should not be able to veto the state”. That is a coherent position, but it has a catch. What is it? Legal does not automatically mean prudent, proportionate or socially acceptable. Mass surveillance may have a legal basis in certain circumstances and still pose an enormous problem for civil liberties. Something similar happens with autonomous weapons: the legality of an operation does not, by itself, answer who takes responsibility when a machine makes a mistake. Conversely, a company should not be able to present itself as the ultimate democratic arbiter of war either. Anthropic has commercial and reputational interests, and a philosophy of its own. Its limits deserve scrutiny; they are not a constitution written by engineers.

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