Computerworld
By Anirban Ghosal
March 5, 2026
Anthropic is attempting to renegotiate the terms of its AI contract with the US Department of Defense (DoD). CEO Dario Amodei has been in meetings with Emil Michael, the US under-secretary of defense for research and engineering, to iron out contractual disagreements that led the DoD to mark Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, the Financial Times cited sources as saying.
The disagreements were specifically about clauses the DoD wanted in the contract that would allow it to use Anthropic’s systems to carry out mass domestic surveillance and build autonomous weapons systems, both of which are ethical red lines that Anthropic is not prepared to cross.
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