Hegseth Threatens To Classify Anthropic As A Supply Chain Risk
Axios quoted a Pentagon spokesman as saying the U.S. government was “reviewing” its relationship with Anthropic, the maker of the Claude large language model, as it also quoted a senior official it didn’t name making the threat. If Anthropic was put on the supply-chain-risk list, it would force other companies that do business with the Pentagon to sever their Anthropic relationship too.
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The issue is with Anthropic’s negotiations on how its products can be used, drawing a line at it being used to spy on Americans en masse or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement, according to Axios. The report said the government is concerned about “gray areas” as well as the prospect of having to negotiate individual use cases.
An Anthropic spokesman is quoted as saying there are “hard limits around fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance,” but denied that it had objected to the Venezuelan operation.