Pete Hegseth had threatened to cancel $200m contract unless it was given unfettered access to Claude model

Pete Hegseth has threatened to cancel $200m contract unless it is given unfettered access to Claude model

Anthropic said Thursday it “cannot in good conscience” comply with a demand from the Pentagon to remove safety precautions from its artificial intelligence model and grant the US military unfettered access to its AI capabilities.

The Department of Defense had threatened to cancel a $200m contract and deem Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, a designation with serious financial implications, if the company did not comply with the request by Friday.

Chief executive Dario Amodei said in a statement that the threats from the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, would not change the company’s position, and that he hoped Hegseth would “reconsider”.

  • Buffalox
    51·
    10 hours ago

    USA has absolutely zero respect for the rights of people in or from other countries.
    This was also evident in how Obama explained the “balance” of US surveillance.
    It is also evident in how USA spies on allied top politicians. The might makes right mentality in USA is disgusting.

    • greybeard@feddit.onlineEnglish
      4·
      5 hours ago

      As an American, it has always been obvious to me that the government thinks rights are only for people in the country. Snoden’s whistle blowing made it clear that it isn’t just US. Lots of other countries act the same way, and the US government is using that to allow them to spy domestically too.