Before today, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had threatened to label Anthropic a “supply chain risk” if it did not agree to withdraw safeguards that insist Claude not be used for mass surveillance against Americans or in fully autonomous weapons. In a post on X published after President Trump’s statement, Hegseth said he was “directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic.”
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At the OpenAI all-hands, staff were told that the most challenging aspect of the deal for leadership was concern over foreign surveillance, and that there was a major worry about AI-driven surveillance threatening democracy, according to the source. However, company leaders also seemed to acknowledge the reality that governments will spy on adversaries internationally, recognizing claims that national security officers “can’t do their jobs” without international surveillance capabilities. References were made to threat intelligence reports showing that China was already using AI models to target dissidents overseas.