Pentagon stops using Anthropic AI tools months after blacklisting company, BBC told
The US Department of Defence has officially ceased using Anthropic's AI tools following a national security designation. The move follows a dispute over the company's refusal to remove safety guardrails from its Claude AI model for military use.
Why it matters
This conflict illustrates the friction between AI safety ethics and the military's demand for unrestricted access to advanced technology for national security.
Image source, Reuters Image caption, Defence secretary Pete Hegseth has publicly criticised Anthropic's boss Dario Amodei
The US Department of Defence is no longer using Anthropic's AI tools, an official has told the BBC, months after it designated the company a supply chain risk on national security grounds.
The Pentagon "has ceased the use of Anthropic products", the department official said in a statement.
Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth labelled Anthropic a supply chain risk in February, and announced that the Pentagon would stop using it by late August.
But multiple people familiar with the matter told the BBC that as recently as last week Anthopic's Claude model was still used by the department in research, analysis and intelligence gathering as well as in military operations against Iran.
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