🇺🇸 Pentagon vs AI Guardrails: A $200M Standoff

The U.S. Department of Defense is pressuring top AI labs to allow their models to be used for “all lawful purposes” including weapons development, intelligence collection, and battlefield operations.

At the center of the dispute: Anthropic.

Here’s what’s happening:

What the Pentagon wants
• Broad authorization to deploy frontier AI models across classified and unclassified networks
• Fewer built-in guardrails on classified “secret” systems
• Assurance that models won’t refuse tasks mid-operation

From the military’s perspective, operational r