Bryan Walsh
Maybe that’s why he has chosen a Hollywood-esque high noon — or, at least, late afternoon — showdown for his deepening dispute with the AI company Anthropic. Hegseth has given Anthropic until 5:01 pm on Friday to respond to his demands that the company give the US military full and unfettered access to its AI, or face consequences that could threaten its survival. Anthropic has so far refused, and on Thursday evening CEO Dario Amodei said in a statement that the company “cannot in good conscience accede to their request.”
What’s unfolding this week is the biggest confrontation between the US government and a tech company over AI ethics since Google employees rebelled against working with the Pentagon in 2018. But with AI far more advanced and far more essential to both the American economy and American defense than it was eight years ago, the stakes now are much greater — certainly for Anthropic itself, but also for the question of just who has final control over an existential technology. (Disclosure: Future Perfect is funded in part by the BEMC Foundation, whose major funder was also an early investor in Anthropic. They do not have any editorial input into our content.)
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