Pete Hegseth wages war on Anthropic
Pete Hegseth, a Pentagon official, has given Anthropic an ultimatum to agree to the Department of War's terms on AI usage for military purposes or face severe penalties. Anthropic has insisted that its Claude AI model must not be used for mass domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons.
Pete Hegseth, a Pentagon official, met with Dario Amodei, Anthropic's boss, on February 24th to discuss the use of Anthropic's AI models for military purposes. Hegseth vowed to terminate Anthropic's contract by February 27th if the AI lab did not agree to his terms. Anthropic's main contract with the DoW is worth $200m, but being labelled as a supply-chain risk could have a bigger impact. The Pentagon is threatening to invoke the Defence Production Act, which gives the president authority to oblige companies to do national-security work. Anthropic's model is seen as one of the best available, and the Pentagon is reluctant to remove it from its systems. Other AI labs, such as OpenAI and xAI, are also vying for Pentagon contracts, with varying levels of restriction on AI use.
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