"AI's power demands responsibility; always. Removing ethical checks doesn't accelerate progress, it undermines the trust that makes AI viable. Bold leadership means holding the line, not abandoning it."

Anthropic refused a Pentagon demand to remove safety guardrails from its Claude AI model and grant the US military unfettered access, saying it “cannot in good conscience” comply. The Department of Defense threatened to cancel a $200m contract and label Anthropic a “supply chain risk” if it did not concede. Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei said using AI for autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance is unsafe, and the standoff highlights tensions between AI safety commitments and military use of advanced models.