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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War 2026/02/23 18:00

• URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
• Posted: 2026-02-23T18:00:00.000Z (date: 2026/02/23)
• Topics: Anthropic US/gov/DOD Dario Amodei AI/industry AI/safety
• Summary: «The Department of War has stated they will only contract with AI companies who accede to “any lawful use” and remove safeguards in the cases mentioned above. They have threatened to remove us from their systems if we maintain these safeguards» ... «these threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.» ...and yet this article says they did.

• author: Dario Amodei
• source: Anthropic

Commentary

• 2026-02-26 20:00~ Lawrence Lessig on LinkedIn: «This is a beautiful act of integrity and principle, incredibly rare for our time. Thank you, Anthropic.»