US lawmakers flummoxed by the Pentagon’s negotiating tactics with Anthropic PBC are warning that carrying out those threats would have significant consequences for the military ecosystem.
The Pentagon and Anthropic are at odds over the company’s resistance to dropping guardrails on its powerful AI tool, Claude, which the Pentagon runs in classified settings. Anthropic has insisted the US military refrain from using its products to autonomously target enemy combatants or conduct mass surveillance of US citizens.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to invoke the Defense Production Act to use the AI software and declare Anthropic a supply-chain risk. Anthropic ...
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