Anthropic Defies U.S. Demand To Permit Its AI To Autonomously Kill Humans

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the company will not comply with U.S. government pressure to let its AI be used for domestic mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. Claude is already deployed across the Department of War for mission-critical tasks such as intelligence analysis, modeling and simulation, operational planning and cyber operations.

Amodei’s statement makes clear Anthropic is not opposed to some military uses of Claude and that the company has turned down hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts from the Chinese Communist Party because they might be used militarily against the U.S. He added that Anthropic will not allow the product to spy on American citizens or to place weapons entirely under AI control.

Officials have warned that keeping current safeguards could lead to Claude being removed from military operations, that Anthropic could be designated "a supply chain risk," and that the Defense Production Act might be invoked. Amodei wrote, "Regardless...

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