Anthropic challenges US Pentagon’s ban in San Francisco court showdown
Al Jazeera
Anthropic accuses Pentagon of unlawful retaliation over its refusal to loosen AI safety restrictions for military use.
Anthropic and the administration of United States President Donald Trump are headed to court over the US Defense Department’s decision last month to cut ties with the artificial intelligence giant after it refused to allow unrestricted military use of its Claude AI model.
The legal showdown begins Tuesday in San Francisco, where Anthropic will petition the court to halt a Pentagon-led ban enacted after the company refused to strip safety guardrails that prevent its artificial intelligence (AI) from being used for fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance.
US District Judge Rita Lin, an appointee of former US President Joe Biden, will preside over the hearing in San Francisco.
On March 3, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic as a national security supply chain risk amid the company’s refusal to remove guardrails. The designation prohibits anyone within the Defense Department or its contractors from using the technology.
Anthropic’s designation was the first time a US company has been publicly designated a supply chain risk under an obscure government procurement statute aimed at protecting military systems from foreign sabotage.
In its lawsuit, Anthropic said the designation was unlawful and violated its free speech and due process rights.
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There has been a weeks-long feud between the Pentagon and Anthropic over concerns about how the military could use AI at war.