Pentagon Used Anthropic’s Claude in Maduro Venezuela Raid
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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?
Above: Aerial view of the Pentagon building in Arlington, Va., on Oct. 22, 2025. Image credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images
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Anti-Trump narrative
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.
Pro-Trump narrative
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.
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