Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is reportedly back in talks with the Pentagon for a new AI defense partnership after negotiations with the Pentagon failed, which ostracized the tech company.
According to reports Financial Times (FT)Amodei is involved in new talks with Emile Michael, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, aimed at resolving the dispute over the Pentagon’s access to Anthropic’s controversial AI tools.
If Anthropic succeeds in winning a new Pentagon contract, it would allow the U.S. military to deploy its AI models on classified networks, lowering the company’s “supply chain risk” designation, the people said.
In late February, Amodei refused to accept the Pentagon’s AI military proposal, citing controversial provisions such as lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens.
As a result of Anthropic’s defiance of AI ethics, the Department of Defense labeled the company a “supply chain risk to national security” and criticized Amodei as a “liar” with a “God complex.”
OpenAI then signed an agreement with the Department of Defense, but faced significant backlash for violating AI safety guardrails.
“As the end of the negotiations neared, [department] They offered to accept our current terms if we removed specific language regarding “analysis of bulk data acquisition,” a line in the contract that matched exactly the scenario we were most concerned about. I found that to be highly suspicious,” Amodei wrote in an internal memo to staff on Friday, which was first reported information and was seen by FT.
Both Antropic and the Department of Defense declined to comment.
