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Anthropic says US defense officials demanded it weaken protections on its Claude AI so it could be used for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, and CEO Dario Amodei refused, warning the company will not remove those safeguards.

Anthropic says the Defense Department asked it to remove safeguards that would prevent Claude from being used for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.
CEO Dario Amodei said those use cases were never in Anthropic's contracts with the Department of War and should not be added now.
Anthropic called updated contract language from the Department of War legally enabling safeguards to be disregarded and therefore insufficient.
Pentagon officials threatened to invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a supply chain risk if the company did not comply.
Anthropic offered to work with the Department of War on R&D to improve AI reliability and said it would help the department transition to another provider if offboarded.

Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguards

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