Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei )

[usonian]

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

Feb 27, 2026

Earlier today, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shared on X that he is directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk. This action follows months of negotiations that reached an impasse over two exceptions we requested to the lawful use of our AI model, Claude: the mass domestic surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons.

We have not yet received direct communication from the Department of War or the White House on the status of our negotiations.

We have tried in good faith to reach an agreement with the Department of War, making clear that we support all lawful uses of AI for national security aside from the two narrow exceptions above. To the best of our knowledge, these exceptions have not affected a single government mission to date.

We held to our exceptions for two reasons. First, we do not believe that today’s frontier AI models are reliable enough to be used in fully autonomous weapons. Allowing current models to be used in this way would endanger America’s warfighters and civilians. Second, we believe that mass domestic surveillance of Americans constitutes a violation of fundamental rights.

More at the link above.

Amodei means "I Love God"

But not the orange false god who deigns mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons to be holy in his hell.

[RockRaven]

1. It is important to note that these all of these AI CEOs are still con artists and liars.

Do not mistake them for heroes just because one time they did one thing which wasn't obviously maximally evil, any more than you do MTG, Massie, Mace, or Boebert for their Epstein files votes.

[usonian]

2. Focus on actions.

This is actually a very important "first", regardless of how abominable he is. Or not.

Every company up to now has caved massively.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. They know they could face legal consequences if they give in.

Trmp won't be around forever, it just feels that way.

[bamagal62]

3. Every time I see

“Secretary of War”, I cringe.

[appmanga]

4. You have to have a very small penis...

...to think calling the Defense Department "The Department of War" is somehow a sign of strength.

[usonian]

7. I just held my breath and copied the headline.

Projection, as always.

Fortune cookie says: "Great wind comes from empty cave."

[appmanga]

8. I hope you don't think I was referring to you.

My comment is about Hegseth and Trump.

[usonian]

9. Umderstood!! I am senior, divorced, a veteran of the service and of deranged socopathic bosses in Silicon Valley.

I'm really hard to perturb.
You're just fine!

[Prairie Gates]

6. It's so goofy that everybody has to use "Department of War" and Secretary of War" and "warfighters" now

Like to even speak in public you have to buy into Pete Hegseth's pathetic little wet dream.

Our entire society is an embarrassment.