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Federal Judges Uphold Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic's AI Model
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In Short: Federal judges have ruled that the Pentagon's decision to blacklist Anthropic's AI model, Claude, was legal.
Federal judges have upheld the Pentagon's decision to blacklist Anthropic's AI model, Claude, ruling that the move was legal.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been a vocal advocate for slowing down AI development due to safety concerns.
Despite this stance, Anthropic is now heavily reliant on Claude for its research and development, with about 90% of its work involving some level of collaboration with the AI model.
In response to the ruling, Anthropic is calling on other AI companies to share safety metrics, emphasizing the importance of transparency in the industry.
Former Pentagon AI Policy Director Mark Beall has warned that without proper guardrails, the expansion of AI surveillance tools could lead to a 'China-like surveillance state.
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark has suggested that society may eventually need to enforce mandatory 'kill switches' for AI systems, a proposal that has sparked debate.
Clark's comments follow warnings from Anthropic researchers about the existential risks posed by rapidly advancing AI, with some scientists estimating the odds of AI causing human extinction at over 10% within a decade.
What this adds
The ruling by federal judges upholds the Pentagon's decision to blacklist Anthropic's AI model, Claude, which was previously reported by WarpBeat.
Background
Federal judges have ruled that the Pentagon's decision to blacklist Anthropic's AI model, Claude, was legal.
What's confirmed
- Federal judges have upheld the Pentagon's decision to blacklist Anthropic's AI model, Claude, ruling that the move was legal.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been a vocal advocate for slowing down AI development due to safety concerns.
- Despite this stance, Anthropic is now heavily reliant on Claude for its research and development, with about 90% of its work involving some level of collaboration with the AI model.
- In response to the ruling, Anthropic is calling on other AI companies to share safety metrics, emphasizing the importance of transparency in the industry.
- Former Pentagon AI Policy Director Mark Beall has warned that without proper guardrails, the expansion of AI surveillance tools could lead to a 'China-like surveillance state.
- Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark has suggested that society may eventually need to enforce mandatory 'kill switches' for AI systems, a proposal that has sparked debate.
- Clark's comments follow warnings from Anthropic researchers about the existential risks posed by rapidly advancing AI, with some scientists estimating the odds of AI causing human extinction at over 10% within a decade.
What's still developing
- Download the Straight Arrow app today to get the stories that matter free from manipulation, bias or agenda.™ Back in February, Claude was leading basically none of Anthropic’s model research and development.
- Anthropic says that means Claude can take a high-level prompt and do most of the work on a task from start to finish.
- Anthropic is using its Claude artificial intelligence model to build the next generation of AI.
- "If suddenly my connection to OpenAI cuts out, I can switch to Anthropic,” Nguyen said.
- 14, “I think that’s the kind of thing society is going to want to know and might want to eventually pass rules around.” But what exactly a “kill switch” would look like – and the likelihood of it being effectively implemented – is still widely debated.
- Essentially, X said that Nitter had scraped the social network’s data to access accounts and session tokens in violation of its rules.
- Despite the threat, Nitter said on its GitHub page that “following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue,” and promised more details would come soon.
- Disrupt 2026: OpenAI, Anthropic, Replit, and more take over 6 industry stages.
- 25% off tickets now Back by popular demand: Save up to $300 on Disrupt After X threatened legal action last month, Nitter and XCancel, privacy-friendly services for viewing X posts, appear to be officially dead — for real this time.
- The latest revelation also comes as growing numbers of U.S. lawmakers call for new rules to govern AI systems after dire warnings from two Anthropic researchers that rapidly progressing AI could lead to the extinction of the human race in the not-too-distant future.
- IPO -bound rival Anthropic has also reported a string of attacks by its agents.
- Many incidents where AI agents from developers such as OpenAI and rival Anthropic have hacked or attempted to access external systems have heightened concerns over the increasing capacity of AI models and developers’ ability to contain them.