Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguards

Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei is refusing the US Department of Defense's demand to remove safeguards from the company's AI tool Claude, saying the company would rather lose Pentagon contracts than allow its technology to be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons (AI systems that make attack decisions without human control). The Pentagon has threatened to remove Anthropic from its supply chain and invoke the Defense Production Act if the company doesn't comply.