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Report: Pentagon Considers Cutting Off Anthropic Over Safeguards Dispute

Is Anthropic protecting civil liberties by resisting Pentagon pressure or handicapping American defense?

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Report: Pentagon Considers Cutting Off Anthropic Over Safeguards Dispute

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Above: Aerial view of the Pentagon building in Arlington, Va., on Oct. 22, 2025. Image credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images

The Spin

Anthropic deserves credit for standing firm against the Trump administration's pressure to remove safeguards preventing autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. These limits shield constitutional protections that depend on humans who can disobey illegal orders, and prevent AI from enabling governments to track and correlate every public conversation to target political opposition.

Gizmodo

Vineet on X

Anthropic's hand-wringing over Pentagon use of Claude ignores reality — AI weaponization is already happening globally and the rest of the world didn't sign Silicon Valley's naive peace pacts. If Claude cannot be used again in military operations after the seizure of Maduro due to ideological concerns, America's defense will suffer while adversaries forge ahead with dual-use AI technologies.

ZeroHedge

Metaculus Prediction

There's a 2% chance that the U.S. will sign a Treaty on the Prohibition of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems before 2031, according to the Metaculus prediction community.