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Anthropic says no to Pentagon demand for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons

Rob Beschizza
Feb 27, 2026
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Pete Hegseth (Joshua Sukoff/shutterstock.com)

Anthropic, best-known for its Claude AI platform, will be losing Pentagon business after it declined to change its policies against using its technology for mass surveillance of Americans or to create weapons capable of killing people autonomously. Per CEO Dario Amodei:

the artificial intelligence company “can…

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