Artificial Intelligence Policy and Safety

President Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s Claude after the Pentagon designated the company a “supply chain risk,” terminated its classified contract and gave the Defense Department up to six months to phase out embedded systems—moves prompted by a Pentagon ultimatum that Anthropic drop its guardrails banning mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, a dispute that was catalyzed in part by Claude’s reported use in a Maduro operation. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who has publicly rejected removing those “bright‑line” limits, says he is trying to “de‑escalate” and continue negotiations even as the administration pushes replacement deals with OpenAI, Google and xAI and Anthropic prepares legal challenges amid warnings of substantial operational and financial fallout.