
Sen. Warren questions DOD about Anthropic blacklist that 'appears to be retaliation'
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Warren sent letters to Pete Hegseth and Sam Altman, asking for additional details of OpenAI's contract with the defense department and Anthropic's blacklisting.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said the Department of Defense's decision to designate artificial intelligence startup Anthropic a supply chain risk "appears to be retaliation."
In a formal letter to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday, Warren noted that the department "could have chosen to terminate its contract with Anthropic or continued using its technology in unclassified systems."
"I am particularly concerned that the DoD is trying to strong-arm American companies into providing the Department with the tools to spy on American citizens and deploy fully autonomous weapons without adequate safeguards," Warren wrote.













