We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots
Summary
The Pentagon is pressuring Anthropic (an AI company) to remove safety restrictions on its technology or face being labeled a 'supply chain risk' that could cost it billions in contracts. The pressure includes demands for military access to the AI for surveillance and autonomous weapons systems, raising concerns among tech workers about how their work might be used.
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Original source: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/885963/anthropic-dod-pentagon-tech-workers-ai-labs-react
First tracked: February 27, 2026 at 03:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%