Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Tuesday at the Pentagon amid a dispute over the AI firm's usage policy, which bars its model Claude from being used for mass surveillance or to develop weapons that can be used without human oversight.
If Anthropic doesn't agree to the Pentagon's terms, the department warned it would use the Defense Production Act against the company or designate it as a supply chain risk, a senior Pentagon official told The Hill. Axios first reported the Friday deadline.
"During the conversation, Dario expressed appreciation for the Department's work and thanked the Secretary for his service," an Anthropic spokesperson told The Hill in a statement on Tuesday.
"We continued good-faith conversations about our usage policy to ensure Anthropic can continue to support the government's national security mission in line with what our models can reliably and responsibly do," the spokesperson added.
The Pentagon official insisted that tactical operation cannot be led by exception and the legality of the missions are the department's responsibility as the end user.
"The Pentagon has only given out lawful orders," the official said.
The relationship between Anthropic and the Pentagon has become increasingly rocky in recent weeks, putting at risk the $200 million contract the company signed with the Defense Department last summer.
Google, OpenAI and Elon Musk's xAI also struck similar contracts and have since been added to the department's new bespoke AI platform, GenAI.mil.
However, Anthropic's Claude has so far been the only AI model available on classified systems. The Pentagon reached a new agreement with xAI to use its AI model, Grok, on the classified side, the Pentagon official told The Hill, while Google and OpenAI are "close."
Check out the full report at TheHill.com.
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