The AI X Leadership Summit is designed for executives and technical leaders navigating the complex realities of AI adoption, governance, workforce transformation, and innovation.
The Anthropic Institute exists to understand and shape the consequences of powerful AI systems. We focus on the urgent questions that will determine whether these systems deliver the radical upsides that we believe are possible in science, security, economic development, and human agency-or whether they will pose a range of unprecedented new risks to humanity.
Every enterprise is becoming an agent operator - whether they planned to or not. Agents have access to the most critical systems, but there is no guarantee they will not make serious mistakes or be compromised.
For years, Anthropic has distinguished itself from peers by embracing a safety-first stance. Its flagship model, Claude, was designed with guardrails that explicitly prohibit use in fully autonomous lethal weapons or domestic surveillance. Those restrictions have been central to the company's identity and its appeal to customers wary of unfettered AI.
Pentagon officials said Claude has been used to help process large volumes of information, turning dense reports and documents into summaries that analysts can review more quickly. The system has also supported planning and coordination tasks by helping teams organize logistics data and identify supply chain gaps across military operations.
According to sources familiar with the meeting, Hegseth has given Anthropic until Friday to give the US military full access to its applications, the latest escalation of an ongoing row between one of the world's top AI startups and the US government. So far, Anthropic has refused to give Washington complete access to its models for classified military use, including for potentially lethal missions carried out without human control and for domestic mass surveillance.
These people are exactly who can help us create change across the public sector giving us the hard truths on our approach to AI and advising where we need to prioritise our investment to support real efficiencies, said Murray, who added that their advice will feed into efficiency processes ahead of the next spending review.
