"We exercised our classic First Amendment rights to speak up and disagree with the government. Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world, and we are patriots in everything we have done here. We have stood up for the values of this country."
"In a blog post on Thursday, Amodei said the company could not 'in good conscience accede' to the Defense Department's demands regarding Claude. He cited the lab's red lines that its AI tech could not be deployed in mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons."
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday laid out an ultimatum for the lab: Agree to the military's terms, or be blacklisted. In a Friday post on X, Hegseth said no 'contractor, supplier, or partner' with the US military will be allowed to do business with Anthropic."
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei defended the company's refusal to accept Pentagon terms for its Claude AI model, characterizing the decision as an exercise of First Amendment rights. Anthropic declined the Defense Department's demands, citing red lines against deploying Claude in mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons systems. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responded by threatening to blacklist Anthropic from military contracts and declaring it a supply chain risk to national security. President Trump subsequently ordered federal agencies to cease using Anthropic's products, calling the company radical and woke. Amodei maintained that disagreeing with government represents patriotic American values and that Anthropic has upheld the country's foundational principles through its stance.
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