Jaden Shafer

This isn't the only kind of drama going on at the company.

According to Axios, they just put out a report, Anthropic has a ton of pressure that's increasing from the Pentagon

over access to its AI models.

So the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, he apparently told the CEO, Dario Amadeo, that Anthropic had to provide the US military with unrestricted access to its models, or they're gonna risk being labeled as a supply chain risk.

This is basically a designation that the US, the Department of Defense or the US military is typically giving to foreign adversaries.

Alternatively,

they could invoke the Defense Protection Act, which is basically force, anthropic, to tailor their systems for military use.

If you want to know kind of the context or background on the Defense Protection Act, it basically gives the president the authority to require companies to prioritize or basically to expand their product for national defense.

And the last time this was used was during COVID-19.

They actually used it to force General Motors and 3M to make ventilators and masks.

And so, you know, this is something that's been used in the past.

Does it warrant it today is the real question.

Obviously, applying it in a dispute over AI guardrails is going to be an interesting expansion of how this has been used in the past.

Anthropic has...

Basically, I mean, they've been pushing back, so we'll see what happens.

They have some sort of deadline now, but they've for a long time said that they don't want their technology to be used for mass domestic surveillance or for fully autonomous weapon systems.

And they also say that they don't plan to relax any of those restrictions for the US government, even with them asking.

So it's gonna be very interesting to hear what happens here.

And the officials over the Pentagon are arguing basically that military use for AI should be governed by US law and constitutional constraints instead of internal policies of, you know, like a private company, for example.

So, of course, now you have this whole standoff.