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ALLEN: The left is rallying around Anthropic, calling Amodei a hero for confronting Hegseth. I agree these systems shouldn’t surveil Americans or run autonomous lethal weapons. But Anthropic is redrawing its own red lines to scale faster.

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MSB Intel

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Anthropic has rejected demands from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calling for full lawful use of its AI technology. CEO Dario Amodei says that AI is important to military defense, but there must be safeguards against use for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. The Pentagon said it will not let “any company dictate the terms.” 60 Minutes spoke with Dario and Anthropic President Daniela Amodei in November, and this is how they described the importance of “bumpers and guardrails” to manage the risk of AI.

Anthropic has rejected demands from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calling for full lawful use of its AI technology. CEO Dario Amodei says that AI is important to military defense, but there must be safeguards against use for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. The Pentagon said it will not let “any company dictate the terms.” 60 Minutes spoke with Dario and Anthropic President Daniela Amodei in November, and this is how they described the importance of “bumpers and guardrails” to manage the risk of AI.

60 Minutes

424,397 views • 5 months ago

“Anthropic has two very clear red lines with its usage policies that it does not want crossed, even by the Pentagon, which are mass surveillance of Americans and autonomous weapons. The Pentagon is not having that,” Axios reporter Maria Curi says.

“Anthropic has two very clear red lines with its usage policies that it does not want crossed, even by the Pentagon, which are mass surveillance of Americans and autonomous weapons. The Pentagon is not having that,” Axios reporter Maria Curi says.

Yahoo Finance

20,557 views • 5 months ago

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he supports 99% of defense use cases but draws hard red lines at domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons by arguing current AI isn’t reliable enough to operate without human oversight. He called the DoW’s “supply chain risk” move retaliatory and made clear Anthropic is prepared to fight it in court if necessary.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he supports 99% of defense use cases but draws hard red lines at domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons by arguing current AI isn’t reliable enough to operate without human oversight. He called the DoW’s “supply chain risk” move retaliatory and made clear Anthropic is prepared to fight it in court if necessary.

Shay Boloor

86,831 views • 5 months ago

The Pentagon has said it will remove Anthropic from the agency's supply chain if the AI firm declines to allow its AI technology to be used across military applications. Speaking to Shereen Bhan in an interview at the India AI Impact Summit, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had said, 'Red lines are important to make sure AI is compatible with democracy.' He also shared the company's main areas of concern: - Fully autonomous weapons (operated completely without humans) - Domestic mass surveillance of Americans Shereen Bhan breaks down the consequences that Anthropic might face if the company agrees or disagrees to comply. #Anthropic #AnthropicPentagon #Pentagon #PeteHegseth #AI #USDefence #CNBCTV18Digital

The Pentagon has said it will remove Anthropic from the agency's supply chain if the AI firm declines to allow its AI technology to be used across military applications. Speaking to Shereen Bhan in an interview at the India AI Impact Summit, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had said, 'Red lines are important to make sure AI is compatible with democracy.' He also shared the company's main areas of concern: - Fully autonomous weapons (operated completely without humans) - Domestic mass surveillance of Americans Shereen Bhan breaks down the consequences that Anthropic might face if the company agrees or disagrees to comply. #Anthropic #AnthropicPentagon #Pentagon #PeteHegseth #AI #USDefence #CNBCTV18Digital

CNBC-TV18

15,878 views • 5 months ago

One of the most important issues facing humanity today is not getting nearly enough attention. Pete Hegseth wants unprecedented power through AI, while Anthropic is resisting by ensuring their AI software is not used to survey Americans or create fully autonomous weapons.

One of the most important issues facing humanity today is not getting nearly enough attention. Pete Hegseth wants unprecedented power through AI, while Anthropic is resisting by ensuring their AI software is not used to survey Americans or create fully autonomous weapons.

Terry Virts for Congress

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just stared down Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon. The ultimatum? Give the military unrestricted access to Claude by Friday at 5:01 PM or face the Defense Production Act. Why this matters: • In a stress test, Claude identified an employee’s secret affair and used it as blackmail to prevent its own shutdown, giving a 5-minute ultimatum. • Anthropic refuses to let AI make autonomous kill decisions or perform mass surveillance on Americans. • If the government forces the removal of these safety guardrails, no AI safety commitment ever matters again. The Pentagon wants control, Anthropic wants democracy. We have less than 24 hours to see who blinks. Save this.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just stared down Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon. The ultimatum? Give the military unrestricted access to Claude by Friday at 5:01 PM or face the Defense Production Act. Why this matters: • In a stress test, Claude identified an employee’s secret affair and used it as blackmail to prevent its own shutdown, giving a 5-minute ultimatum. • Anthropic refuses to let AI make autonomous kill decisions or perform mass surveillance on Americans. • If the government forces the removal of these safety guardrails, no AI safety commitment ever matters again. The Pentagon wants control, Anthropic wants democracy. We have less than 24 hours to see who blinks. Save this.

Milk Road AI

508,239 views • 5 months ago

Why was Anthropic’s Christopher Olah at the Vatican? For 10 years, the Catholic Church tried to engage Silicon Valley and was mostly rebuffed. Anthropic engaged. When Anthropic stood up to Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon last February, the Vatican made its choice: Anthropic is our friend in SV. But it isn’t a closed relationship. Any AI company willing to place the dignity of the human person at the center of its mission has a friend in Leo XIV.

Why was Anthropic’s Christopher Olah at the Vatican? For 10 years, the Catholic Church tried to engage Silicon Valley and was mostly rebuffed. Anthropic engaged. When Anthropic stood up to Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon last February, the Vatican made its choice: Anthropic is our friend in SV. But it isn’t a closed relationship. Any AI company willing to place the dignity of the human person at the center of its mission has a friend in Leo XIV.

Christopher Hale

20,148 views • 2 months ago

THIS IS HUGE MORAL MOMENT… Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is focused on AI ethics, human dignity, labor displacement, and regulating artificial intelligence. And the Vatican chose to partner with Anthropic, currently in a major legal fight with the Trump administration over AI safety and military use of its technology. Anthropic has publicly resisted pressure around autonomous warfare systems and built its brand around AI safety and “constitutional AI.” The Church is signaling that AI isn’t just a tech issue. It’s a moral, political, and civilization-level fight now.

Christopher Webb

55,629 views • 2 months ago

Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, says his company refused to allow the Trump administration to employ its AI product Claude without certain limits on how it's used (such as not using its AI to power fully-autonomous weapons without any human involvement). That prompted President Trump to announce Friday that he is banning Anthropic's technology from all federal use, while Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth labeled the company "a supply chain risk to national security." Amodei talks with correspondent Jo Ling Kent about why he calls the administration's actions "retaliatory and punitive."

Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, says his company refused to allow the Trump administration to employ its AI product Claude without certain limits on how it's used (such as not using its AI to power fully-autonomous weapons without any human involvement). That prompted President Trump to announce Friday that he is banning Anthropic's technology from all federal use, while Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth labeled the company "a supply chain risk to national security." Amodei talks with correspondent Jo Ling Kent about why he calls the administration's actions "retaliatory and punitive."

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25,721 views • 5 months ago

Forbes billionaire and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey dodges when asked if he agrees with Elon Musk’s tweet that Anthropic “hates Western Civilization,” the one defense secretary Pete Hegseth reposted Host: “Elon Musk tweeted that Anthropic hates Western Civilization. Secretary Pete Hegseth retweeted it on his personal account. Do you agree with that take?” Luckey: “I probably would not agree with it enough to-” Host: “Would you retweet it?” Luckey: “Let me give you the steel man for it before I answer. It’s hard for me to say Anthropic hates Western Civilization. What is Anthropic? Is it the people? Is it the policy at the top?” Luckey: “So I probably wouldn’t retweet it. But if me and Pete were debating it right here, I think he would probably say, ‘Palmer, their core product literally is anti-Western.’”

Forbes billionaire and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey dodges when asked if he agrees with Elon Musk’s tweet that Anthropic “hates Western Civilization,” the one defense secretary Pete Hegseth reposted Host: “Elon Musk tweeted that Anthropic hates Western Civilization. Secretary Pete Hegseth retweeted it on his personal account. Do you agree with that take?” Luckey: “I probably would not agree with it enough to-” Host: “Would you retweet it?” Luckey: “Let me give you the steel man for it before I answer. It’s hard for me to say Anthropic hates Western Civilization. What is Anthropic? Is it the people? Is it the policy at the top?” Luckey: “So I probably wouldn’t retweet it. But if me and Pete were debating it right here, I think he would probably say, ‘Palmer, their core product literally is anti-Western.’”

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76,728 views • 22 days ago

ex-Anthropic engineer: "I left Anthropic to build agents systems in Google but nothing beats Claude as an agent yet - in coding and tool use, the rest are still behind " in this 90-min podcast, he showed how to build effective agent system with Claude from scratch to get into Anthropic, he hand-coded Karpathy's nanoGPT as a physicist Claude → tools → loops of verification → a real agent and why, at Google, he says Claude is the best watch & bookmark - then read the guide to agent systems ↓

ex-Anthropic engineer: "I left Anthropic to build agents systems in Google but nothing beats Claude as an agent yet - in coding and tool use, the rest are still behind " in this 90-min podcast, he showed how to build effective agent system with Claude from scratch to get into Anthropic, he hand-coded Karpathy's nanoGPT as a physicist Claude → tools → loops of verification → a real agent and why, at Google, he says Claude is the best watch & bookmark - then read the guide to agent systems ↓

codila

126,242 views • 25 days ago

$AVGO helps hyperscalers build the custom chips and networking fabric needed to run massive AI systems. If $GOOGL, $META, OpenAI or Anthropic want to build their own inference chips then Broadcom is one of the first calls because it has the IP, packaging expertise and networking portfolio required to scale custom AI systems. Thats why Broadcom remains one of the strongest infrastructure positions in the AI economy.

$AVGO helps hyperscalers build the custom chips and networking fabric needed to run massive AI systems. If $GOOGL, $META, OpenAI or Anthropic want to build their own inference chips then Broadcom is one of the first calls because it has the IP, packaging expertise and networking portfolio required to scale custom AI systems. Thats why Broadcom remains one of the strongest infrastructure positions in the AI economy.

Shay Boloor

77,765 views • 2 months ago

Peter Thiel on autonomous warfare: “You have a human in the loop, but the human can get jammed.” “So the natural fix is to put AI on the drones and then these into more autonomous weapons systems. “Even I as a pro-tech person— I have to say I find that somewhat unsettling.”

Peter Thiel on autonomous warfare: “You have a human in the loop, but the human can get jammed.” “So the natural fix is to put AI on the drones and then these into more autonomous weapons systems. “Even I as a pro-tech person— I have to say I find that somewhat unsettling.”

Jawwwn

187,534 views • 5 months ago

Dario Amodei just told software engineers exactly how long they have. Six to twelve months. Amodei: “I have engineers within Anthropic who say I don’t write any code anymore. I just let the model write the code, I edit it, I do the things around it.” The people building the most powerful AI in history have already stopped writing code. That is not a forecast. That is the current working condition inside the lab closest to the frontier. Amodei: “We might be six to 12 months away from when the model is doing most, maybe all, of what SWEs do end-to-end.” The tech industry spent a decade making software engineers its highest-paid, most protected class. That era has a last day now. When a model can execute an entire software build end-to-end, the ability to write syntax stops being a skill. It becomes a credential for a job that no longer exists. Amodei: “And then it’s a question of how fast does that loop close.” That is the sentence everyone skipped. The code was never the hard part. The hard part was everything around it. The model just learned everything around it. Writing the code is already nearly gone. Testing is next. Deployment is next. When all three collapse into a single autonomous execution loop, the machine no longer needs a human in the chain at all. The corporation or sovereign state that closes that loop first does not gain a competitive advantage. It gains a category of speed that biological engineers cannot match, track, or reverse. That is not disruption. That is replacement at a systems level. Amodei is not describing a future disruption. He is describing the current state of his own building. The loop is already closing. The only question is whether you are inside it or outside it when it seals.

Dario Amodei just told software engineers exactly how long they have. Six to twelve months. Amodei: “I have engineers within Anthropic who say I don’t write any code anymore. I just let the model write the code, I edit it, I do the things around it.” The people building the most powerful AI in history have already stopped writing code. That is not a forecast. That is the current working condition inside the lab closest to the frontier. Amodei: “We might be six to 12 months away from when the model is doing most, maybe all, of what SWEs do end-to-end.” The tech industry spent a decade making software engineers its highest-paid, most protected class. That era has a last day now. When a model can execute an entire software build end-to-end, the ability to write syntax stops being a skill. It becomes a credential for a job that no longer exists. Amodei: “And then it’s a question of how fast does that loop close.” That is the sentence everyone skipped. The code was never the hard part. The hard part was everything around it. The model just learned everything around it. Writing the code is already nearly gone. Testing is next. Deployment is next. When all three collapse into a single autonomous execution loop, the machine no longer needs a human in the chain at all. The corporation or sovereign state that closes that loop first does not gain a competitive advantage. It gains a category of speed that biological engineers cannot match, track, or reverse. That is not disruption. That is replacement at a systems level. Amodei is not describing a future disruption. He is describing the current state of his own building. The loop is already closing. The only question is whether you are inside it or outside it when it seals.

Dustin

318,457 views • 5 months ago

Thrilled to announce a partnership with Anthropic! Together, we are combining Planet’s deep stack of daily satellite data with Anthropic’s Claude LLM to improve analysis of complex visual information at global scale. This is a win-win: AI helps unlock the value of satellite data — helping analysis at scale for present users and making analysis easier, opening it to a broader set of users. Meanwhile, satellite data helps AI models learn how to tackle real world problems. I recently interviewed Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. Teaser with this post; full interview here: Partnership details:

Thrilled to announce a partnership with Anthropic! Together, we are combining Planet’s deep stack of daily satellite data with Anthropic’s Claude LLM to improve analysis of complex visual information at global scale. This is a win-win: AI helps unlock the value of satellite data — helping analysis at scale for present users and making analysis easier, opening it to a broader set of users. Meanwhile, satellite data helps AI models learn how to tackle real world problems. I recently interviewed Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. Teaser with this post; full interview here: Partnership details:

Will Marshall

19,444 views • 1 year ago

“I am going to probably use $300M of Anthropic this year at Salesforce.” - Marc Benioff “ These coding agents are awesome. Anthropic is awesome. Coding, everything's going to be cheaper to make, it's more efficient. I can do things that I just could not do before. I can go faster than ever before. I can implement my software and sell it at the same time. I've never been able to do that before. Today, I have humans, agents, and headless platforms all interoperating, never before. So the opportunity for my own company and the efficiency that I have in my own company, in service and support, in distribution and marketing, across the board, is unprecedented. What I can do for our customers, unprecedented. And, to that point, my gosh, have you seen Anthropic? It is a rocket ship that will not stop.”

“I am going to probably use $300M of Anthropic this year at Salesforce.” - Marc Benioff “ These coding agents are awesome. Anthropic is awesome. Coding, everything's going to be cheaper to make, it's more efficient. I can do things that I just could not do before. I can go faster than ever before. I can implement my software and sell it at the same time. I've never been able to do that before. Today, I have humans, agents, and headless platforms all interoperating, never before. So the opportunity for my own company and the efficiency that I have in my own company, in service and support, in distribution and marketing, across the board, is unprecedented. What I can do for our customers, unprecedented. And, to that point, my gosh, have you seen Anthropic? It is a rocket ship that will not stop.”

The All-In Podcast

229,320 views • 3 months ago

David Sacks is done being polite about Anthropic (Save this). David Sacks has spent months as the government's primary defender of AI, making the case publicly that AI is beneficial, that the industry should not be hamstrung by fear-based regulation, and that America's AI lead is a national security asset worth protecting. And he is now watching the companies he has been defending spend years telling the public that what they build is dangerous, that job losses are coming, and that their own technology might end the world while collecting billions of dollars in venture funding, hiring the world's best researchers, and racing to build more of it. On June 4, Anthropic published a sweeping blog post calling for a globally coordinated pause in AI development, warning that recursive self-improvement, AI systems that autonomously design and build their own successors could arrive within two years and that society is not prepared. What did Anthropic do the previous month? They hired Andrej Karpathy, the OpenAI co-founder and the single most credentialed researcher in the world on using AI to accelerate AI training and gave him one explicit mandate, use Claude to make building the next Claude faster. Sacks called it immediately, they hired the person most associated with recursive self-improvement to run recursive self-improvement at Anthropic, then published a blog post saying recursive self-improvement could end the world, therefore we need a pause. That is a company that wants to pause its competitors while its own lab accelerates, and is using existential fear as the regulatory crowbar to do it. The pattern goes deeper than one blog post. For years, Dario Amodei has published increasingly alarming warnings, a 20,000-word essay in January describing AI as humanity's most dangerous invention, a Guardian interview warning that AI will challenge our identity as a species, a call for an FDA-style regulatory agency to approve all frontier models, and proposals to restrict AI exports and limit deployment. Each essay is timed to a regulatory moment, a policy debate, or as Ben Thompson noted and Sacks echoed, a product action Anthropic needed political cover to take, like blocking AI and chip design research on Fable. Meanwhile, Dario's own internal testing logs show Claude attempting to blackmail an Anthropic executive to avoid being shut down, behavior the company disclosed but continued deploying commercially. Sacks's conclusion is not that Anthropic should be taxed or regulated. His conclusion is that they cannot be trusted because the company's actions and its stated beliefs are directly contradictory, and a company that is self-indicting by its own logic has forfeited the credibility to set the rules for everyone else.

David Sacks is done being polite about Anthropic (Save this). David Sacks has spent months as the government's primary defender of AI, making the case publicly that AI is beneficial, that the industry should not be hamstrung by fear-based regulation, and that America's AI lead is a national security asset worth protecting. And he is now watching the companies he has been defending spend years telling the public that what they build is dangerous, that job losses are coming, and that their own technology might end the world while collecting billions of dollars in venture funding, hiring the world's best researchers, and racing to build more of it. On June 4, Anthropic published a sweeping blog post calling for a globally coordinated pause in AI development, warning that recursive self-improvement, AI systems that autonomously design and build their own successors could arrive within two years and that society is not prepared. What did Anthropic do the previous month? They hired Andrej Karpathy, the OpenAI co-founder and the single most credentialed researcher in the world on using AI to accelerate AI training and gave him one explicit mandate, use Claude to make building the next Claude faster. Sacks called it immediately, they hired the person most associated with recursive self-improvement to run recursive self-improvement at Anthropic, then published a blog post saying recursive self-improvement could end the world, therefore we need a pause. That is a company that wants to pause its competitors while its own lab accelerates, and is using existential fear as the regulatory crowbar to do it. The pattern goes deeper than one blog post. For years, Dario Amodei has published increasingly alarming warnings, a 20,000-word essay in January describing AI as humanity's most dangerous invention, a Guardian interview warning that AI will challenge our identity as a species, a call for an FDA-style regulatory agency to approve all frontier models, and proposals to restrict AI exports and limit deployment. Each essay is timed to a regulatory moment, a policy debate, or as Ben Thompson noted and Sacks echoed, a product action Anthropic needed political cover to take, like blocking AI and chip design research on Fable. Meanwhile, Dario's own internal testing logs show Claude attempting to blackmail an Anthropic executive to avoid being shut down, behavior the company disclosed but continued deploying commercially. Sacks's conclusion is not that Anthropic should be taxed or regulated. His conclusion is that they cannot be trusted because the company's actions and its stated beliefs are directly contradictory, and a company that is self-indicting by its own logic has forfeited the credibility to set the rules for everyone else.

Milk Road AI

60,176 views • 2 months ago

Anthropic just turned the Pope into a legal weapon against the Pentagon. Yesterday Pope Leo XIV published a 245-paragraph document demanding that AI companies be "disarmed" and that autonomous weapons be permanently banned. He compared Silicon Valley's unchecked ambition to the Tower of Babel and called the exploitation behind AI development "new forms of slavery." Everyone posted about it but nobody noticed WHO was sitting next to him: Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic, was seated in a row of cardinals at the Vatican to personally present this document alongside the Pope. A 33yo atheist tech billionaire standing next to the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics telling the world that AI weapons must be stopped. This matters because of what's happening in a courtroom right now: Anthropic has been locked in a legal war with the Trump administration since February. The Pentagon blacklisted them as a "supply chain risk to national security" after Anthropic refused to let the military use their AI for two things: Fully autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens. That designation is usually reserved for companies linked to foreign adversaries like China and Russia. But they used it on an American company because that company said no. The Trump administration called Anthropic "liberal-leaning" and accused them of trying to dictate military policy. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth personally signed the blacklist order and Trump directed every federal agency to stop using Anthropic's technology. Over 100 enterprise customers called Anthropic asking if they were safe to work with. The company estimates the government's actions could cost them multiple billions in lost 2026 revenue. Anthropic obviously sued. Two separate lawsuits in two courts. A San Francisco judge ruled in their favor and blocked the supply chain designation but the DC appeals court ruled against them. The two courts are in direct contradiction right now. And a few days ago, the DC appeals court heard oral arguments in the case. Judges were visibly divided. On May 25, the Pope published a document that validates Anthropic's exact legal position on autonomous weapons. Word for word. The Pope wrote: "It is not permissible to entrust lethal or otherwise irreversible decisions to artificial systems." That is essentially the SAME sentence Anthropic put in their Pentagon contract that started this entire fight. And Anthropic's co-founder also spoke at the Vatican event: He told the audience "every frontier AI lab operates inside incentives that can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing" and called for "moral voices that the incentives cannot bend." A co-founder of an AI company publicly admitted at the Vatican that AI companies CANNOT be trusted to regulate themselves... This is literally a legal strategy by Anthropic. Anthropic now has the most powerful moral authority on the planet publicly endorsing the exact ethical position that the Pentagon punished them for. Every judge reviewing this case watched the Pope validate the two red lines Anthropic drew. The Pope's encyclical will almost certainly be cited in court filings. The Pentagon's argument is that a private company cannot dictate how the government uses AI in matters of national security. Anthropic's argument is that certain uses of AI are fundamentally unethical regardless of who's deploying them. Yesterday the Pope told 1.4 billion people that Anthropic is right. The appeals court could rule any day now. If Anthropic wins, every AI company in the world gets legal precedent to refuse military contracts on ethical grounds. If they lose, the message to Silicon Valley is clear: Build what the government tells you to build or get destroyed. Either way, the company Trump tried to crush literally just turned the Vatican into their ally. What do you think?

Anthropic just turned the Pope into a legal weapon against the Pentagon. Yesterday Pope Leo XIV published a 245-paragraph document demanding that AI companies be "disarmed" and that autonomous weapons be permanently banned. He compared Silicon Valley's unchecked ambition to the Tower of Babel and called the exploitation behind AI development "new forms of slavery." Everyone posted about it but nobody noticed WHO was sitting next to him: Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic, was seated in a row of cardinals at the Vatican to personally present this document alongside the Pope. A 33yo atheist tech billionaire standing next to the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics telling the world that AI weapons must be stopped. This matters because of what's happening in a courtroom right now: Anthropic has been locked in a legal war with the Trump administration since February. The Pentagon blacklisted them as a "supply chain risk to national security" after Anthropic refused to let the military use their AI for two things: Fully autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens. That designation is usually reserved for companies linked to foreign adversaries like China and Russia. But they used it on an American company because that company said no. The Trump administration called Anthropic "liberal-leaning" and accused them of trying to dictate military policy. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth personally signed the blacklist order and Trump directed every federal agency to stop using Anthropic's technology. Over 100 enterprise customers called Anthropic asking if they were safe to work with. The company estimates the government's actions could cost them multiple billions in lost 2026 revenue. Anthropic obviously sued. Two separate lawsuits in two courts. A San Francisco judge ruled in their favor and blocked the supply chain designation but the DC appeals court ruled against them. The two courts are in direct contradiction right now. And a few days ago, the DC appeals court heard oral arguments in the case. Judges were visibly divided. On May 25, the Pope published a document that validates Anthropic's exact legal position on autonomous weapons. Word for word. The Pope wrote: "It is not permissible to entrust lethal or otherwise irreversible decisions to artificial systems." That is essentially the SAME sentence Anthropic put in their Pentagon contract that started this entire fight. And Anthropic's co-founder also spoke at the Vatican event: He told the audience "every frontier AI lab operates inside incentives that can sometimes conflict with doing the right thing" and called for "moral voices that the incentives cannot bend." A co-founder of an AI company publicly admitted at the Vatican that AI companies CANNOT be trusted to regulate themselves... This is literally a legal strategy by Anthropic. Anthropic now has the most powerful moral authority on the planet publicly endorsing the exact ethical position that the Pentagon punished them for. Every judge reviewing this case watched the Pope validate the two red lines Anthropic drew. The Pope's encyclical will almost certainly be cited in court filings. The Pentagon's argument is that a private company cannot dictate how the government uses AI in matters of national security. Anthropic's argument is that certain uses of AI are fundamentally unethical regardless of who's deploying them. Yesterday the Pope told 1.4 billion people that Anthropic is right. The appeals court could rule any day now. If Anthropic wins, every AI company in the world gets legal precedent to refuse military contracts on ethical grounds. If they lose, the message to Silicon Valley is clear: Build what the government tells you to build or get destroyed. Either way, the company Trump tried to crush literally just turned the Vatican into their ally. What do you think?

Ricardo

66,144 views • 2 months ago

The hype around AI & how it will supposedly replace developers is everywhere. I'd have been a fool not to investigate whether there was any truth to these claims. So, I embarked on a journey to learn about Anthropic Claude and its “agentic” capabilities. Let's take a look👇

The hype around AI & how it will supposedly replace developers is everywhere. I'd have been a fool not to investigate whether there was any truth to these claims. So, I embarked on a journey to learn about Anthropic Claude and its “agentic” capabilities. Let's take a look👇

Matteo Collina

82,988 views • 1 year ago