Anthropic CEO Defies Pentagon Demands as Defense Production Act Threat Looms

• •Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he "cannot in good conscience accede" to the Pentagon's demands for wider military use of the AI chatbot Claude.
• •The Trump administration has threatened to invoke the Cold War-era Defense Production Act or designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk to compel compliance.
• •Key unresolved issues include preventing Claude from being used for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons systems.
• •Anthropic said it remains in negotiations but that recent Pentagon contract language failed to address its core concerns.
• •The dispute underscores tensions between government efforts to leverage AI for defense and tech companies focused on AI safety.

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