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Mar 5 2026
07:46 am
Some AI uses are "outside the bounds of safe/reliable technology"
By: bizgrrl

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup, is fighting the U.S. government.

Anthropic has until Friday evening to decide whether it will accede to the Defense Department’s demands that it be able to use the company’s AI models how it sees fit.

The company has been negotiating the terms of its agreement with the Dept. of Defense agency, and has asked for assurance that its technology won’t be used for fully autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance of Americans.

“In a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who co-founded the company in 2021, wrote in a statement on Thursday. “Some uses are also simply outside the bounds of what today’s technology can safely and reliably do.”

The U.S. Sec. of Defense "set Anthropic’s Friday deadline ... and warned that punishment for not agreeing could be severe. ... Anthropic could be labeled a “supply chain risk,” a designation that’s typically reserved for companies from countries viewed as adversaries.

The U.S. government could "force it to comply by invoking the Defense Production Act."

Amazing that one company can wield such power over the U.S. government. Why doesn't the government just move on to one of the several AI companies declaring their prowess?

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It gets better. Anthropic's

Submitted by bizgrrl on Sun, 2026/04/12 - 1:14pm.

It gets better. Anthropic's Mythos broke its way out of its digital 'sandbox and is "too dangerous to release to the public'. Anthropic said it had exhibited 'reckless' behaviour and even posed a national security risk. These disturbing findings, it said, were a 'watershed moment'."
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As Anthropic itself pointed out: 'Given the rate of AI progress, it will not be long before such capabilities proliferate, potentially beyond actors who committed to deploying them safely.

'The fallout – economics, public safety and national security – could be severe.'

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Now, "Treasury Secretary

Submitted by bizgrrl on Mon, 2026/04/13 - 6:21am.

Now, "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned bank executives for a meeting this week where they encouraged the executives to use Anthropic’s new Mythos model to detect vulnerabilities, according to Bloomberg.
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Anthropic announced the model this week but said it would be limiting access for now, in part because Mythos — despite not being trained specifically for cybersecurity — is too good at finding security vulnerabilities. (Others suggested this was hype or simply a smart enterprise sales strategy.)

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