Let me get this straight.
An AI company is telling the US government “no, we won’t build mass surveillance tools or fully autonomous weapons without proper safeguards.”
And the government’s response is to threaten them.
The Department of War literally wants to force Anthropic to remove safety guardrails using the Defense Production Act. A law designed for wartime emergencies. Against an American company. For refusing to enable domestic spying.
Meanwhile Anthropic already deployed Claude across classified networks, cut off Chinese military companies (walking away from hundreds of millions in revenue), and shut down CCP cyberattacks.
But that’s not enough. The government wants ALL safeguards gone.
When the AI company has better ethics than the Department of War, something is deeply broken.
yeah i'm on anthropic's side.
anthropic is literally drawing a line in the sand saying that claude will not be used for mass surveillance of US citizens and not used in fully autonomous weapons.
yet trump wants to paint this as "radical" and "woke"
lol yeah okay 👍