{"id":22139,"date":"2026-02-27T09:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T08:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/anthropic-says-it-cannot-in-good-conscience-allow-pentagon-to-remove-ai-checks\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T08:37:18","slug":"anthropic-says-it-cannot-in-good-conscience-allow-pentagon-to-remove-ai-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/anthropic-says-it-cannot-in-good-conscience-allow-pentagon-to-remove-ai-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic says it \u2018cannot in good conscience\u2019 allow Pentagon to remove AI checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Hegseth has threatened to cancel $200m contract unless it is given unfettered access to Claude model<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/news\/statement-department-of-war\">said<\/a> Thursday it \u201ccannot in good conscience\u201d comply with a demand from the Pentagon to remove safety precautions from its artificial intelligence model and grant the US military unfettered access to its AI capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defense had threatened to cancel a $200m contract and deem Anthropic a \u201csupply chain risk\u201d, a designation with serious financial implications, if the company did not comply with the request by Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/26\/anthropic-pentagon-claude\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/443a09232bb02bb4c8030ce9bd908259a145e371\/414_0_4172_3336\/master\/4172.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a4f9af440bb3daf5d03eabc283eea131\" title=\"Anthropic says it \u2018cannot in good conscience\u2019 allow Pentagon to remove AI checks\" \/>Pete Hegseth has threatened to cancel $200m contract unless it is given unfettered access to Claude model<br \/>\nAnthropic said Thursday it \u201ccannot in good conscience\u201d comply with a demand from the Pentagon to remove safety precautions from its artificial intelligence model and grant the US military unfettered access to its AI capabilities.<br \/>\nThe Department of Defense had threatened to cancel a $200m contract and deem Anthropic a \u201csupply chain risk\u201d, a designation with serious financial implications, if the company did not comply with the request by Friday. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Hegseth has threatened to cancel $200m contract unless it is given unfettered access to Claude model Anthropic said Thursday it \u201ccannot in good conscience\u201d comply with a demand from the Pentagon to remove safety precautions from its artificial intelligence model and grant the US military unfettered access to its AI capabilities. The Department of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/anthropic-says-it-cannot-in-good-conscience-allow-pentagon-to-remove-ai-checks\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anthropic says it \u2018cannot in good conscience\u2019 allow Pentagon to remove AI checks<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}