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Don’t bet that the Pentagon – or Anthropic – is acting in the public interest | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders
The US Department of Defense dropped Anthropic as an AI supplier after the company refused to allow its models to be used for mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, provisions Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dismissed as 'woke.' President Trump subsequently ordered federal agencies to discontinue use of Anthropic models, and OpenAI quickly stepped in to secure government contracts worth potentially hundreds of millions of dollars. The episode has sparked broader debate about democratic ov