Discussion

• @rcbregman Rutger Bregman on x

  This makes it very clear: Hegseth and the Trump administration want killer robots and AI mass surveillance of Americans. Anthropic doesn't want this. Implication is that OpenAI, Google, and xAI are okay with it. [image]

• @malinowski Tom Malinowski on x

  Anthropic's conditions — AI can't kill humans without a man in the loop, and no mass surveillance of Americans — are 100% consistent with our military's values and pre-existing rules, and with the views of most people across partisan lines. Where the hell is Congress here?

• @daniellefong Danielle Fong on x

  claude prepare me for this meeting. make no mistakes

• @jxnlco Jason Liu on x

  Let's see if Dario passes the cultural fit interview questions

• @jmbollenbacher @jmbollenbacher on x

  i feel like dario will fold here But if he doesnt fold and the Trump admin actually exiles Anthropic from DoD work, thats actually amazing news Anthropic leaving DoD behind would reduce AI s-risk odds tremendously. It'd also help Claude, and thatd help Anthropic in the long run

• @andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x

  Dario Amodei is being summoned by the Department of War, he will meet with Pete Hegseth tomorrow morning. The Axios report quotes a Defense official who claims Hegseth will be presenting Amodei with an ultimatum. [image]

• @jengriffinfnc Jennifer Griffin on x

  Via @Axios Scoop: Hegseth to meet Anthropic CEO and issue ultimatum as Pentagon threatens banishment. BUT “Claude is the only AI model available in the military's classified systems, and the most capable model for sensitive defense and intelligence work. The Pentagon doesn't want

• @annmarie Annmarie Hordern on x

  Axios: Secretary Hegseth has summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning for what sources say is likely to be a tense meeting over terms for military use of Claude. “This is a shit-or-get-off-the-pot meeting,” a senior Defense official said.

• @seniormcgeezer @seniormcgeezer on bluesky

  Big Brother wants to use Ai for mass surveillance, and  —  making autonomous weapons of war.  We can't let any  —  Ai company sell it's product to use against people.  —  www.axios.com/2026/02/23/h...  [image]

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  Anthropic's models are so good, the U.S. military is threatening them into letting their AI be used to create weapons and for global surveillance.  —  This is ironically a great sales pitch for Claude Code.

• r/Military r on reddit

  Scoop: Hegseth to meet Anthropic CEO as Pentagon threatens banishment

• r/neoliberal r on reddit

  Scoop: Hegseth to meet Anthropic CEO as Pentagon threatens banishment