{"id":12858485,"date":"2026-02-26T20:56:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/?p=12858485"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:17:08","slug":"anthropic-takes-a-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2026\/02\/26\/anthropic-takes-a-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic Takes a Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleHero_root__3w7kV ArticleHero_articleStandard__2tcdv\" data-event-module=\"hero\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"ArticleHero_defaultArticleLockup__vb8lz\">\n<div>\n<h2 data-flatplan-title=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/newsletters\/2026\/02\/anthropic-pentagon-ai-regulation\/686169\/?gift=rzDUIolzVNfKfBNSyuQYsdptMYX2PcpYq4JnseZaoPY&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthropic Takes a Stand<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleHero_dek__EqdkK\" data-flatplan-description=\"true\">\n<p class=\"ArticleDek_root__P3leE\"><em>The company is refusing to bow to the Pentagon\u2019s demands.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleHero_byline__iFT6A\">\n<div class=\"ArticleBylines_root__IBR5V\">By\u00a0<a class=\"ArticleBylines_link__kNP4C\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/author\/will-gottsegen\/\" data-event-element=\"author\" data-flatplan-author-link=\"true\">Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleLeadArt_root__nRSLU\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<section class=\"ArticleBody_root__2gF81\" data-event-module=\"article body\" data-flatplan-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">Earlier this week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sat down with Dario Amodei, the CEO of the leading AI firm Anthropic, for a conversation about ethics. The Pentagon had been using the company\u2019s flagship product, Claude, for months as part of a $200 million contract\u2014the AI had even reportedly played a role in the January mission to capture Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u2014but Hegseth wasn\u2019t satisfied. There were certain things Claude just wouldn\u2019t do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleParagraph_root__4mszW\" data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\">That\u2019s because Anthropic had instilled in it certain restrictions. The Pentagon\u2019s version of Claude could not be used to facilitate the mass surveillance of Americans, nor could it be used in fully autonomous weaponry\u2014situations where computers, rather than humans, make the final decision about whom to kill. According to a source familiar with this week\u2019s meeting, Hegseth made clear that if Anthropic did not eliminate those two guardrails by Friday afternoon, two things could happen: The Department of Defense could use the Defense Production Act, a Cold War\u2013era law, to essentially commandeer a more permissive iteration of the AI, or it could label Anthropic a \u201csupply-chain risk,\u201d meaning that anyone doing business with the U.S. military would be forbidden from associating with the company. (This penalty is typically reserved for foreign firms such as China\u2019s Huawei and ZTE.)<\/p>\n<p data-flatplan-paragraph=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/newsletters\/2026\/02\/anthropic-pentagon-ai-regulation\/686169\/?gift=rzDUIolzVNfKfBNSyuQYsdptMYX2PcpYq4JnseZaoPY&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More here &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic Takes a Stand The company is refusing to bow to the Pentagon\u2019s demands. By\u00a0Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic\u00a0 \u00a0 Earlier this week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sat down with Dario Amodei, the CEO of the leading AI firm Anthropic, for a conversation about ethics. The Pentagon had been using the company\u2019s flagship product, Claude, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":12849032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22331,26922,21,1,12,25391,26295],"tags":[26310,371,26302],"class_list":{"0":"post-12858485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence-ai-generative-ai-chatgpt-natural-language-processing","8":"category-market-news","9":"category-available","10":"category-uncategorized","11":"category-phils-favorites","12":"category-members-corner","13":"category-technology","14":"tag-ai","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12858485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12858487,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858485\/revisions\/12858487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12849032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12858485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12858485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12858485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}