AI vs. the Pentagon: killer robots, mass surveillance, and red lines

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 29: U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (C) speaks during a gathering of the Cabinet arsenic U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick (R) perceive successful the Cabinet Room of the White House connected January 29, 2026 successful Washington, DC. President Trump is holding the gathering arsenic the Senate plans to clasp a ballot connected a spending bundle to debar different authorities shutdown, nevertheless Democrats are holding retired for a woody to see backing for the Department of Homeland Security.  (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) | Getty Images

Can AI firms acceptable limits connected however and wherever the subject uses their models? Anthropic is successful heated negotiations with the Pentagon aft refusing to comply with caller subject declaration presumption that would necessitate it to loosen the guardrails connected its AI models, allowing for “any lawful use,” adjacent wide surveillance of Americans and afloat autonomous lethal weapons. 

Pentagon CTO Emil Michael is pushing for Anthropic to beryllium designated a “supply concatenation risk” if it doesn’t comply, a statement usually lone fixed to nationalist information threats. Anthropic’s rivals OpenAI and xAI person reportedly agreed to the caller terms, but adjacent aft a White House gathering with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is still refusing to transverse his company’s reddish line, stating that “threats bash not alteration our position: we cannot successful bully conscience accede to their request.”

Follow on present for the latest updates connected the clash betwixt AI companies and the Pentagon…

• We don’t person to person unsupervised slayer robots
• Anthropic refuses Pentagon’s caller terms, lasting steadfast connected lethal autonomous weapons and wide surveillance
• Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon AI bro squad includes a erstwhile Uber enforcement and a backstage equity billionaire
• Inside Anthropic’s existential negotiations with the Pentagon