The U.S. military reportedly used Anthropic’s AI tool Claude during the operation that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. (Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)
During the meeting, Amodei walked through those restrictions and argued restrictions would not interfere with lawful, legitimate War Department operations, according to a source familiar with the meeting.
A senior Pentagon official claimed its position "has nothing to do with mass surveillance or autonomous targeting" because "there’s always a human involved and the department always follows the law."
Even as tensions rose, officials on both sides indicated that fully autonomous weapons are not currently contemplated under the department’s lawful use framework, suggesting the clash is as much about control as about battlefield applications.
The Pentagon is reviewing Anthropic, led by Dario Amodei, above, as a "supply chain risk." (Priyanshu Singh/Reuters )
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Pentagon officials also said Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot has agreed to allow its products to be used for all lawful purposes, including potential integration into classified systems, and that other frontier AI firms are "close" to similar arrangements.
Grok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Anthropic, in a statement attributed to a company spokesperson, said: "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met with Secretary Hegseth at the Pentagon this morning. During the conversation, Dario expressed appreciation for the Department's work and thanked the Secretary for his service. We continued good-faith conversations about our usage policy to ensure Anthropic can continue to support the government's national security mission in line with what our models can reliably and responsibly do."
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