Pentagon, Anthropic and AI
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AI safety and research company Anthropic has told the Pentagon it will not agree to their demands to drop critical safety precautions and grant the U.S. military full access to their AI capabilities.
The OpenAI rival has options in its showdown with the Pentagon.
Hegseth warns Anthropic to let the military use the company’s AI tech as it sees fit, AP sources say
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pressuring Anthropic to give the military broader access to its artificial intelligence technology or lose its Pentagon contract.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the company that owns the AI assistant Claude would be punished unless it drops all ethical guidelines.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Anthropic boss Dario Amodei that he has until Friday evening to remove restrictions on how the US military can use the company’s Claude AI chatbot – or potentially face major penalties.
The decision comes ahead of a Friday deadline to reach an agreement or face tough measures by the government.
Defense chief Pete Hegseth has threatened to force the company to lift guardrails against greater military use of AI.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic’s CEO a Friday deadline to open the company’s artificial intelligence technology for unrestricted military use or risk losing its government contract, according to a person familiar with their meeting Tuesday.