Emile Michael

We've been negotiating in good faith on the Department of War side for about three months, and we're working pretty diligently, and we sent over a proposal that we thought made a lot of concessions to the language that Anthropic wanted, and then, you know, without any notice,

They published an article where we thought we were getting close, saying that they were breaking off talks well before the deadline, which is generally not good partner-oriented practice, if you will.

AI company Anthropic, which makes the only large language model that can be used in classified settings, landed a military contract worth up to $200 million last summer.

But now that high-dollar contract is at risk.

Anthropic says it doesn't want its AI tools used for domestic surveillance and autonomous lethal activities, even when performed lawfully.

That's opening the door for rival AI companies OpenAI, Google, and XAI, which have all said their models could be used for any lawful use cases.

Emile Michael, the Undersecretary of War for Research and Engineering, said this week, quote, We have to be able to use any model for all lawful use cases.

If any one company doesn't want to accommodate that, that's a problem for us.