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Anthropic says it won't loosen guardrails on its AI systems, despite pressure from the Pentagon.

In a blog post, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the company would not back down on two of its AI policies around mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.

The Department of Defense has been pressuring Anthropic to adapt its AI systems to permit "any lawful use" of its Claude technologies by the US military. "These threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request," Amodei says.

In his blog post, Amodei said, "I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries. However, in a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values. Some uses are also simply outside the bounds of what today’s technology can safely and reliably do.”

Those cases include mass domestic surveillance of American citizens and the current use of fully autonomous weapons. Anthropic says it believes AI-driven mass surveillance remains legal, but it’s “because the law has not yet caught up with the rapidly growing capabilities of AI.”

In response, The Pentagon is giving Anthropic until 5:01 p.m. ET on Friday to decide, or "we will terminate our partnership with Anthropic and deem them a supply chain risk," Parnell writes. That would mean any companies that do business with the US military could not work with Anthropic. 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is also reportedly exploring how the Pentagon could use the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to allow unrestricted use of its systems.

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