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A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War. https://t.co/rM77LJejuk
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View on XAnthropic Refuses DoW Demands to Remove Claude AI Safety Safeguards
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a statement refusing two DoW demands: removing Claude safeguards for mass domestic surveillance capability and fully autonomous weapons support. The DoW threatened to terminate Anthropic's access, label it a "supply chain risk" - previously reserved for US adversaries - and invoke the Defense Production Act to force the safeguards' removal.
Anthropic argues mass surveillance threatens civil liberties that AI amplifies at scale, and current frontier models aren't reliable enough for weapons that select and engage targets without human oversight. Neither safeguard was ever part of Anthropic's DoW contracts.
Anthropic will enable a smooth transition if offboarded but won't change its position. The DoW's threats are contradictory: one brands Anthropic a security risk, the other treats Claude as mission-critical to national security.
