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Anthropic Swears No Killswitch for Pentagon's Claude

Anthropic can't sabotage its own AI in wartime, execs insist in court. But the Pentagon's pulling the plug anyway—overkill or caution?

Aisha Patel 📅 Mar 20, 2026 ⏱️ 4 min read 👁️ 10 views

⚡ Key Takeaways

Anthropic denies any ability to tamper with deployed Claude models in military use.
Pentagon's supply-chain ban halts DoD Claude access, sparking lawsuits.
Feud echoes past tech-gov tensions, potentially boosting open-source military AI.

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Originally reported by Wired - AI