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Anthropic rejects latest Pentagon offer: ‘We cannot in good conscience accede to their request’
Anthropic rejects latest Pentagon offer: ‘We cannot in good conscience accede to their request’
Hadas Gold, CNN
Fri, February 27, 2026 at 8:20 AM GMT+9 2 min read
Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic. - Ruhani Kaur/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Anthropic is rejecting the Pentagon’s latest offer to change their contract, saying the changes do not satisfy the company’s concerns that AI could be used for mass surveillance or in fully autonomous weapons.
The Pentagon and Anthropic are at odds over restrictions the company places on the use of Claude, the first AI system to be used in the military’s classified network.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Tuesday that if Anthropic does not allow its AI model to be used “for all lawful purposes,” the Pentagon would cancel Anthropic’s $200 million contract. In addition to the contract cancellation, Anthropic would be deemed a “supply chain risk,” a classification normally reserved for companies connected to foreign adversaries, Hegseth said.
Anthropic said in a statement that the Pentagon’s new language was framed as a compromise but “was paired with legalese that would allow those safeguards to be disregarded at will.”
In a lengthy blog post on Thursday, Amodei wrote: “I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.”
Amodei said Anthropic understands that the Pentagon, “not private companies, makes military decisions.” But “in a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.” In the case of mass surveillance and autonomous weapons are “outside the bounds of what today’s technology can safely and reliably do.”
Amodei said the Pentagon’s “threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.”
The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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