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Title: Anthropic CEO Says AI Company 'Cannot In Good Conscience Accede' To
Pentagon

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/26/2352...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Anthropic CEO
Dario Amodei said Thursday the artificial intelligence company "cannot in
good conscience accede" to the Pentagon's demands to allow wider use of its
technology. The maker of the AI chatbot Claude said in a statement that it's
not walking away from negotiations, but that new contract language received
from the Defense Department "made virtually no progress on preventing
Claude's use for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous
weapons." The Pentagon's top spokesman has reiterated that the military wants
to use Anthropic's artificial intelligence technology in legal ways and will
not let the company dictate any limits ahead of a Friday deadline to agree to
its demands. Sean Parnell said Thursday on social media that the Pentagon
"has no interest in using AI to conduct mass surveillance of Americans (which
is illegal) nor do we want to use AI to develop autonomous weapons that
operate without human involvement." Anthropic's policies prevent its models,
such as its chatbot Claude, from being used for those purposes. It's the last
of its peers -- the Pentagon also has contracts with Google, OpenAI and Elon
Musk's xAI -- to not supply its technology to a new U.S. military internal
network. Parnell said the Pentagon wants to "use Anthropic's model for all
lawful purposes" but didn't offer details on what that entailed. He said
opening up use of the technology would prevent the company from "jeopardizing
critical military operations." "We will not let ANY company dictate the terms
regarding how we make operational decisions," he said. In a post on X,
Parnell said Anthropic will "have until 5:01 PM ET on Friday to decide.
Otherwise, we will terminate our partnership with Anthropic and deem them a
supply chain risk for DOW."

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