Anthropic Just Told the Pentagon No — And It Might Change Everything
The deadline is today. By 5:01 PM Friday, Anthropic must either hand over unrestricted access to Claude to the U.S. military — or face being labeled a national security risk and blacklisted from all government contracts. Anthropic’s answer? No. CEO Dario Amodei published a blog post late Thursday declaring that Anthropic “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s demands. The company is walking away from a $200 million defense contract rather than remove two guardrails: a ban on using Claude for mass domestic surveillance and a prohibition on fully autonomous weapons systems. ...