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Anthropic-Pentagon battle shows how big tech has reversed course on AI and war | AI (artificial intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/13\/anthropic-pentagon-artificial-intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-13 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The standoff between Anthropic and the Pentagon has forced the tech industry to once again grapple with the question of how its products are used for war \u2013 and what lines it will not cross. Amid Silicon Valley\u2019s rightward shift under Donald Trump and the signing of lucrative defense contracts, big tech\u2019s answer is looking very different than it did even less than a decade ago.<\/p>\n

Anthropic\u2019s feud with the Trump administration escalated three days ago as the AI firm sued the Department of Defense, claiming that the government\u2019s decision to blacklist it from government work violated its first amendment rights. The company and the Pentagon have been locked in a months-long standoff, with Anthropic attempting to prohibit its AI model from being used for domestic mass surveillance or fully autonomous lethal weapons.<\/p>\n

Anthropic has argued that giving in to the DoD\u2019s demands to permit \u201cany lawful use\u201d of its technology would violate its founding safety principles and open up its technology for potential abuse, staking an ethical boundary that others in the industry must decide whether they want to cross.<\/p>\n

Although Anthropic\u2019s refusal to remove safety guardrails and the Pentagon\u2019s subsequent retaliation have highlighted longstanding concerns over the use of AI for conflict, the fight has shown how much the goal posts have moved when it comes to big tech\u2019s ties to the military.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf people are looking for good guys and bad guys, where a good guy is someone who doesn\u2019t support war,\u201d said Margaret Mitchell, an AI researcher and chief ethics scientist at the tech firm Hugging Face. \u201cThen they\u2019re not going to find that here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anti-military protests to military contracts<\/h2>\n

There\u2019s a number of contributing factors in big tech\u2019s newfound embrace of militarism. Its alignment with the Trump administration, which has included shows of fealty to Trump from major CEOs, has tied tech firms to the government\u2019s desire to expand its military capabilities. The…<\/p>\n

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