Anthropic has issued a statement refusing to lower guardrails for Claude at the request of the Department of Justice. The Pentagon gave Anthropic until Friday to comply or have its $200m contract cancelled, along with more serious repercussions like designating it a supply-chain risk. The company let the time run out, and its CEO Dario Amodei, has now said that it “cannot in good conscience” accept the DoD’s demands.
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