Anthropic vows to sue Pentagon over risk designation
The supply chain risk designation of the artificial intelligence firm is a first for a US company.
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Anthropic vows to sue Pentagon over risk designation 2 hours ago Share Save Lily Jamali , North America Technology correspondent and Kali Hays , Technology reporter Share Save The US has officially deemed artificial intelligence firm Anthropic a supply chain risk, setting the stage for an unprecedented legal fight. The Pentagon's designation is the first time a US company has been labelled a supply chain risk, which means the government considers Anthropic not secure enough for it to use. It has led Anthropic, which has refused to give defence agencies unfettered access to its AI tools over concerns of mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, to move towards challenging the decision in court. "We do not believe this action is legally sound, and we see no choice but to challenge it in court," chief executive Dario Amodei wrote on Thursday evening. In a statement earlier on Thursday, a senior Pentagon official said the supply chain risk designation was "effective immediately." Amodei wrote that Anthropic had received a letter from the defence department the previous day designating it a risk, noting that the designation "has a narrow scope." "The law requires the Secretary of War to use the least restrictive means necessary to accomplish the goal of protecting the supply chain", he wrote. "Even for Department of War contractors, the supply chain risk designation doesn't (and can't) limit uses of Claude or business relationships with Anthropic if those are unrelated to their specific Department of War contracts. The AI developer had been in talks with the Department of Defense in recent days. Those talks did not prove fruitful, according to a person familiar with Anthropic who asked not to be identified, in part because of how President Donald Trump and other members of his administration had publicly berated the company. Leadership at Anthropic had thought last week the two sides were near a resolution, after weeks of back and forth. Then Trump posted on his Truth So...
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