March 9 (UPI) -- Artificial intelligence company Anthropic filed a lawsuit Monday against the federal government for labeling it a supply-chain risk, a designation that is usually reserved for companies doing business with the Chinese government that are a major national security risk.
The Anthropic lawsuit alleges that the Pentagon applied the designation inappropriately to punish it on ideological grounds.
The suit comes after a fight between the company and the Department of Defense over Anthropic's concerns about unlimited use of AI in defense.
In July, Anthropic signed a $200 million contract with the Pentagon. But CEO Dario Amodei said that Anthropic's AI model Claude could not be used for mass surveillance in the United States or for autonomous weapons without human approval.
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