WASHINGTON: According to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, the company has “no choice” but to contest the Pentagon’s official classification of the AI company as a threat to US national security in court.
However, the CEO emphasized in a blog post on Thursday that the ruling’s actual breadth is more limited than first proposed, indicating that the classification would not have a disastrous impact on the business.
According to Amodei, the Trump administration’s preferred term for the Department of Defense, the Department of War, acknowledged in a letter that Anthropic and its products-including its popular Clauda AI model-have been identifed as supply chain risks.
This is the first time a US business has ever received such a designation, which is usually reserved for companies that operate within foreign adversaries, such as the Chinese tech giant Huawei.
In the meantime, the Pentagon appointed a computer scientist who supported white racists and misogynists online and helped billionaire Elon Musk reform the government last year as its top data officer.
The Pentagon stated on social media that Gavin Kliger’s new position “places him at the center of the department’s most ambitious AI efforts”, emphasizing “day-to-day alignmnet and execution of the Department’s AI projects, working directly with America’s frontier AI labs to support the warfighter.
Between October 2024 and January of last year, Kliger expressed provocative opinions on social media and republished content from self-described misogynist Andrew Tate and white supermacist Nick Fuentes.
In his blog post, Amodei stated that the corporation aims to reassure customers while contesting the action’s legal foundation. He wrote, “It clearly applies only to the use of Claude by customers as a direct part of contracts with the Department of War, not to all use of Claude by customers who have such contracts”.
SOURCE: DAWN NEWS
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