Anthropic and Pentagon face off in court over ban on company’s AI model

Anthropic, an AI company, is suing the US Department of Defense in federal court to challenge a ban on government use of its Claude AI chatbot after the company refused to allow the technology to be used in autonomous weapons systems (machines that can make lethal decisions without human control) and mass surveillance. The Defense Secretary declared Anthropic a supply chain risk (a company considered unsafe to do business with), which the company argues will cause massive financial and business harm.