Anthropic claims to refuse to accept the Pentagon's "final plan"

PANews, February 27 — According to Axios, Anthropic announced on Thursday that negotiations with the Pentagon over the usage terms of the Claude model have made “little progress,” and they cannot accept the Department of Defense’s “final offer.” The core disagreement centers on whether Claude can be used for mass surveillance of American citizens and fully autonomous weapons. The U.S. Department of Defense has previously threatened to blacklist Anthropic from the supply chain risk list or invoke the Defense Production Act to force the unconditional provision of the model. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated that even if they are removed from Department of Defense projects, the company will not agree to the requirement of “all legal uses” and will cooperate to facilitate a smooth transition to other model providers.