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Can AI companies set limits on how and where the military uses their models? Anthropic is in heated negotiations with the Pentagon after refusing to comply with new military contract terms that require it to ease restrictions on its AI models, allowing “any lawful use,” even mass surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous lethal weapons.
Pentagon CTO Emil Michael is pushing for the film to be Anthropic Classified as “Supply Chain Risk” If you do not comply, the designation is usually given only to national security threats. Anthropic’s competitors OpenAI and xAI have reportedly agreed to the new terms, but even after a White House meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, He still refuses to cross his company’s red line, noting that “threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience respond to their request.”
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