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Tech lawyers and AI policymakers warn that the Pentagon’s plans to compel Anthropic to abandon its ethical red lines are contradictory and could chill partnerships between the government and Silicon Valley.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plans to meet Tuesday with the CEO of Anthropic, with the artificial intelligence company the only one of its peers to not supply its technology to a new U.S. military internal network.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the Pentagon on Tuesday and delivered a hard deadline: agree by 5 p.m. Friday to give the military unfettered access to Claude, or face consequences that could include a government blacklist — or forced compliance under a Cold War-era national security law.
Defense secretary uses heavy-handed threats to relax AI guardrails. If he wins this battle, he’ll lose the war.
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