Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Anthropic faces a 5 p.m. EST deadline to comply with the Pentagon and allow it to use the company's artificial intelligence system without restraint.
If Anthropic declines, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has said he will have the company labeled a "supply chain risk" or invoke the Defense Production Act to force it to agree.
In July, Anthropic signed a $200 million contract with the Pentagon, but CEO Dario Amodei insists that its AI model Claude not be used for mass surveillance in the United States or for autonomous weapons without human approval.
The Defense Department has said it doesn't plan to use the tools in that manner, but that Anthropic doesn't get to make those decisions. It says the U.S. government can use tools "for all lawful purposes."
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