Anthropic CEO resumes negotiations with the Pentagon over AI contracts

PANews March 5th Report: According to The Financial Times, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is restarting negotiations with Deputy Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael, aiming to reach a new contract for the Pentagon’s use of Anthropic’s large models. This is to avoid being officially classified as a “supply chain risk” and cut off from military collaborations. Previously, the negotiations broke down over disagreements on whether AI could be used for scenarios such as “mass data analysis.” Amodei insists on prohibiting large models from being used for large-scale domestic surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons. The Pentagon had previously pushed AI companies to agree that their technology could be used for any “legal” purpose. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened last week to list Anthropic as a supply chain risk, but no formal action has been taken yet.