Dario Amodei Rejects Pete Hegseth's Artificial Intelligence Order
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejected a Pentagon ultimatum from Pete Hegseth to remove safety guardrails from the Claude technology by Friday.Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth threatened to cancel a $200M contract and label the firm a supply chain risk if it does not comply.Rivals including Google and OpenAI have voiced support for the company's stance on maintaining ethical restrictions for national security use.The dispute follows reports that the technology was used in a
USA military operation to capture
Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela during January.