Pentagon summons Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei over US military control of Claude AI
India Today
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth's meeting with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Tuesday comes amid escalating pressure from the Defence Department on leading AI developers to make their most advanced models available inside classified military networks with fewer restrictions.
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned Dario Amodei, the CEO of AI firm Anthropic, to the Pentagon for what officials describe as a high-stakes and potentially "tense confrontation" over military access to the company’s Claude Artificial Intelligence (AI) system, according to media reports.
The Tuesday meeting comes amid escalating pressure from the Defence Department on leading AI developers to make their most advanced models available inside classified US military networks with fewer restrictions.
An Axios report, citing informed sources, said that the US wants broader operational use of Claude — currently the only frontier AI model deployed in certain sensitive defence and intelligence environments — while Anthropic has sought to retain safety guardrails governing how its systems are used.
“Anthropic knows this is not a get-to-know-you meeting,” a senior defence official told Axios. “This is not a friendly meeting.”
The official said the Pentagon wants clarity on whether the company is prepared to support expanded military deployment on terms set by the government.
The dispute reflects a widening rift between US national-security agencies and Silicon Valley over how far powerful AI tools should be integrated into war-fighting, surveillance and intelligence workflows.
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