Anthropic CEO says it 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands for AI use

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says 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 Thursday that it’s not walking away from negotiations but that new contract language received from the Pentagon “made virtually no progress on preventing Claude’s use for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons.” Top Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell says the department has no interest in doing either and wants to use the technology in legal ways. Anthropic faces an ultimatum to allow the military to use the company’s AI as it sees fit by Friday or risk losing its government contract.