--- title: Anthropic, DoD face off over acceptable military AI use description: The US Department of Defense and Anthropic are locked in a dispute over military use of Claude AI. After a meeting between CEO Dario Amodei and Defense... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-dod-face-off-over-acceptable-military-ai-use-gwytexney twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Anthropic, DoD face off over acceptable military AI use | daily.dev og:description: The US Department of Defense and Anthropic are locked in a dispute over military use of Claude AI. After a meeting between CEO Dario Amodei and Defense... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-dod-face-off-over-acceptable-military-ai-use-gwytexney og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GwytEXnEY.png og:image:alt: Anthropic, DoD face off over acceptable military AI use og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Anthropic, DoD face off over acceptable military AI use **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The US Department of Defense and Anthropic are locked in a dispute over military use of Claude AI. After a meeting between CEO Dario Amodei and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth failed to resolve differences, the Pentagon threatened to invoke the Defense Production Act to compel Anthropic's compliance, declare the company a supply chain risk, and terminate a $200M contract. Anthropic's red lines include prohibiting autonomous weapons targeting and domestic surveillance. Simultaneously, Anthropic released its Responsible Scaling Policy v3, which notably drops a prior pledge to halt AI training if safety couldn't be guaranteed—citing competitive pressures—raising questions about whether the company may ultimately yield to Pentagon demands. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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