Dario Amadei

According to Amadei, the Pentagon's action has a narrow scope and the vast majority of Anthropic's clients are unaffected.

Amadei says Anthropic does not believe the designation to be legal and has no choice but to challenge it in court, although he says there have been productive discussions.

John Rewich, NPR News.

We wanted to stand up for American values.

And when we were threatened with Supply Chain Designation and Defense Production Act, which are unprecedented intrusions into the private economy by the government, we exercised our classic First Amendment rights to speak up and disagree with the government.

Anthropix AI tools are currently being used on classified systems.

The company has a $200 million contract with the Defense Department.

But Anthropix CEO Dario Amadei is concerned about exactly how those tools might get used.

In particular, he's worried they could be turned on Americans for mass domestic surveillance or used to power autonomous weapons.

Anthropic has rejected the Pentagon's latest offer over the use of its artificial intelligence, ahead of a deadline today for the company to drop its safeguards on its AI model or risk losing its government contracts.

CEO Dario Amadei says the company remains committed to negotiations and still wants to work with the U.S.

military.

but can't in good conscience agree to the Pentagon's demands for AI use.

He says new contract language falls short in preventing mass surveillance on Americans or for the use of autonomous lethal strikes without a human in the loop.

The Pentagon hasn't commented.

Monica Ricks, Bloomberg Radio.

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