Expanding our partnership with GSA to bring Claude to all levels of government(www.anthropic.com)
29 pointsby matthieu_bl5 hours ago5 comments
  • InvisibleUp3 hours ago
    Isn't Claude still considered a supply chain risk by the DoD? I guess that doesn't apply to non-military government agencies.
    • mushufasa2 hours ago
      we're in the limbo zone where the rest of the government is basically ignoring the DoD's designation
  • happytoexplain3 hours ago
    You'll have to start with changing the mission statement at the bottom of your page to remove the term "AI".
  • nxobject2 hours ago
    Huh – I always thought GSA was still full of Elon's minions.
    • cwal37an hour ago
      Who's leasing his compute?
  • iAMkenough3 hours ago
    The company that claims it "may never be profitable" just signed a deal to take even more of your tax dollars, is what I'm reading.

    GSA should be working to host its own inference and models for federal agencies, not selling out to unprofitable private infrastructure.

    Read their SEC filing, then decide if the "discount" is sustainable as a multi-agency dependency for decades to come. Or just blindly accept this as a positive and downvote away.

    • bradreaves23 hours ago
      This isn't the government subsidizing a private venture, it's a private venture offering a discount to the government. What does profitability have to do with whether or not the government should purchase their services?
      • computably3 hours ago
        If the service provider goes under, the govt wasted their money.
        • ameliaquining3 hours ago
          ...no? Whatever value they got from inference they already did is still there? Of course the government still needs to worry about vendor lock-in, but they'd have to do that no matter what, and also general-purpose LLMs are relatively replaceable for most use cases.
    • sailfast3 hours ago
      Claude gov is AWS Bedrock hosted on GovCloud which is managed via GSA schedule and FEDRAMP. So… that’s how GSA does exactly that these days.
      • iAMkenough27 minutes ago
        I'm of the mindset that "GovCloud" and related products that make government dependent on private companies for vast government services is a bad idea.

        If it's critical infrastructure, it should be publicly owned, funded, and protected by the federal government directly. Not rented from someone else under contracts that can be violated.

  • euroderf3 hours ago
    Can Claude propose legislative fixes to eliminate giveaways to special interests ? If not, why not ?
    • judge20203 hours ago
      "Can" and "will be used by the people in power to" are two different things. and "Can in a way that would work" is a whole nother thing.
    • criley22 hours ago
      There is a whole side of sci-fi that has explored the idea that AI government could finally cure us so much more than just one class of corruption. There are, however, new downsides.