Anthropic Rejects Pentagon Contract Over Mass Surveillance Safeguards
Anthropic walked away from Department of Defense talks after the Pentagon refused to accept contract language preventing Claude's use for mass surveillance of Americans. CEO Dario Amodei said virtually no progress was made on restricting the AI model to non-surveillance military applications. The collapse highlights friction between frontier labs' ethics policies and DoD procurement demands.
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