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How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart
The Pentagon and Anthropic were close to agreeing on the use of artificial intelligence. But strong personalities, mutual dislike and a rival company unraveled a deal.
Sheera Frenkel and Cade Metz reported from San Francisco, and Julian Barnes from Washington.
Minutes before a 5:01 p.m. deadline on Friday, Emil Michael, the Department of Defense’s chief technology officer, was fuming.
For weeks, Mr. Michael, a former top executive at Uber, had been negotiating a $200 million artificial intelligence contract with the A.I. company Anthropic for the Pentagon. The talks had hit obstacles as the agency demanded unfettered use of Anthropic’s A.I. systems, while the company countered that it would not allow its technology to be used for purposes such as the surveillance of Americans.
Did We Learn Nothing From ‘WarGames’?
Perhaps you’ve been reading what passes for the news over the last week or so: The government wants the machines to take over, they will soon have control of U.S. military operations, and we’re all going to die.
We’ll take a few steps back. The tech company Anthropic, best known as the “frontier lab” behind the kinder, friendlier, far-less-likely-to-spew-racist-garbage chatbot Claude, is currently engaged in a fight with the Department of Defense. There are, shall we say, some differences of opinion over how the current administration could — and should — use Anthropic’s A.I. system. Specifically, CEO Dario Amodei is wringing his hands over the potential lack of guardrails once the system is handed over. Amodei released a statement in which he noted that the company, which has a contract with the U.S. government and has deployed its artificial-intelligence models across several classified federal networks, has “never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner. However, in a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values. Some uses are also simply outside the bounds of what today’s technology can safely and reliably do.”
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OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon hours after Trump admin bans Anthropic
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced late Friday that the company had signed a deal with the Pentagon for its AI tools to be used in the military’s classified systems, but with seemingly similar guardrails rival Anthropic had also requested.
The deal with OpenAI comes the same day President Donald Trump announced all federal government agencies must cease using Anthropic’s AI tools, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that the company would be deemed a “supply chain risk,†all over refusing to back down in its negotiations with the Pentagon over requested restrictions of its AI system being used in autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of US citizens.
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