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”.

  • GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world
    31·
    19 hours ago

    Would YOU trust Kegsbreath not to use it anyways and then try and shift the blame when it goes haywire? Perhaps you should go watch Robocop (80’s version) to see how that works out?