Anthropic stands up for safety, human rights, and integrity - how can we show our support?

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Plenty of articles are available online.
Here is a link to an article from POLITICO - By Brendan Bordelon, 02/26/2026 06:08 PM EST

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/anthropic-rejects-pentagons-ai-demands-00802554?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it

Anthropic rejects Pentagon’s AI demands
“[T]hese threats do not change our position,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote in a blog post.

The artificial intelligence startup Anthropic on Thursday rejected the Pentagon’s demand for unfettered access to its Claude AI model, suggesting it is willing to risk the serious penalties threatened by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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Anthropic’s defiance follows unprecedented pressure from the Pentagon to abandon its restrictions on the military’s use of Claude. In a Tuesday meeting with Hegseth, Amodei reiterated his red lines — a ban on the technology’s use to surveil American citizens or to empower autonomous weapons.
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Hegseth had threatened to designate Anthropic a risk to the Pentagon’s supply chain if it failed to comply by 5:01pm Friday. The label is almost always reserved for foreign firms with ties to U.S. adversaries, and could be used by the government to blacklist Anthropic and prevent it from working with other companies.
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Hegseth’s move to invoke the DPA suggests that the Pentagon sees Anthropic’s AI models as critically important to U.S. national defense — a stance some lawyers and AI policymakers said was contradictory, given the Pentagon’s concurrent claim that the company may be a national security risk. The discrepancy was highlighted by Amodei in his blog post.

Note: I am not a big fan of AI, but when business owners stand their ground for the security of this country, I applaud...and will use my purchasing power when appropriate.

[Lithos]

1. Easy

Subscribe: https://www.anthropic.com/

To the exclusion of others.

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2. Thanks.

I just added to my post that I am not a big fan of AI...but. I want to support honorable businesses.

[cachukis]

3. Hoping honor code. Bushido.

[usonian]

4. Claude is pretty popular with developers.

Taking that away from DOD and its contractors puts THEM at a big disadvantage (IMO) compared to companies who are principled.

They'll get the contracts when the nazi regime falls.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=21054198
Murder is coming to AI, but not to Claude -- Measuring the Market Effects of Principled Defiance

OTHERS. TAKE A STAND AGAINST FASCISM
Not these Nutlicks. OOPS, I meant Lutnicks.


Mein Fuhrer, Claude has defected to the Freedom Fighters.

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5. It will be good to have trustworthy companies to rely on after this regime.

[haele]

6. Here's an issue...

Claude has been integrated with Microsoft Co-Pilot and Chat GPT because it's got better "vibe" coding (still trying to figure out why someone would want to code a "vibe" ) and handles prompts pretty decently.
DoD/W operates on MS products.
You can't just pull the plug on MS products without taking down the Pentagon.
In short -
Kegsbreath has visions of weaponized AI drone and surveillance systems operating in his precious New Christian States of Amerikkka for his Masters. And he's trying to fast-track acquisition and development of such weapons claiming they'll be needed against Cartels and other asymmetric warfare threats in other countries.
He can claim no military personnel need worry about being courts-martialed because a hall full of San Francisco Liberals at a Gay Pride event inadvertantly got hit by a AI drone swarm targeting terrorists...

Who needs a Constitution when you have a Trump Bible, anyway?

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9. Insert head exploding emoji here!

[Takket]

7. Yeah I can't stand AI either...

But at least they have drawn a line on this!!!

I mean, does everyone realize that Hegseth is literally trying to build a Terminator??? This is INSANITY.

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8. It is the scariest of futuristic dystopian fiction scenarios.

Make Orwell (and Terminator) Fiction Again!