Tanveer Bokhari
The paradox is as sharp as it is unsettling. In February 2026, the world learned that the United States Department of Defense had used Claude, an AI model developed by Anthropic — a company that built its brand on “AI safety” — to help plan and execute a high-stakes military operation to capture a foreign head of state. The same week, reports emerged that the Pentagon, frustrated by Anthropic’s ethical guardrails, was considering terminating its contracts with the company altogether.
This is not merely a contractual dispute between a vendor and its largest client. It is a defining moment for the Western alliance. It forces a reckoning with a fundamental question: Can democracies maintain their constitutional soul while racing to build the world’s most lethal autonomous machines?
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