The A.I. firm behind Claude is far from an ethical company.
with the Pentagon, allowing the department broad-based use of its Claude model as the two prospective partners gradually worked out the final terms of engagement. Those were supposed to get etched last week—only for Anthropic to undergo a Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth demanded that his team be allowed to deploy Claude’s software in whatever manner they deemed pertinent, including applications for domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weaponry, which were “, all but forbidding any military contractors from doing future business with the company.
A federal contract was subsequently bestowed upon Anthropic rival OpenAI, whichThe fallout for Anthropic has been remarkable. It’s the first-ever American company to be deemed a supply-chain risk, which means it’s already lostamply used Claude to plan the Saturday strikes on Iran did not appear to faze many of these folks.) Meanwhile, the complementary OpenAI backlash has been so pitched that it’s pushed CEO Sam AltmanTrump opponents has manifested yet again. But those who’ve chosen Anthropic as a pro-democracy signifier should reconsider their choice of mascot—because, asto Anthropic over the past half-decade will tell you, not only is it far from an ethical company, but it embodies the very worst, most corrosive aspects of A.I.’s impacts on modern society, from creative exploitation to political opportunism to, yes, military lethality.a safeguard, unique within the sector, meant to prevent it from developing risky A.I. tools too quickly. It’s not the first time Anthropic has been so flexible with its self-imposed rules. In 2024, it scrapped its blanket ban against selling Claude products to government spy agencies; just after Trump’s reelection, it also. Even after the capture, Anthropic participated in a Pentagon bidding contest, proposing a system whereby Claude would interpret voice commands so as toIn the most technical sense, none of this violates the red lines that Amodei outlined around surveilling Americans or allowing its tech to powerThat kind of convenient ethical punt has been a constant of Anthropic’s brief history. Long before it reneged on its promise of “responsible” and careful A.I. development, Anthropic used the same unethical shortcuts that have invited so much opprobrium upon competitors like Meta and OpenAI:and Claude sessions. For a company founded by ex-OpenAI executives disaffected with Sam Altman’s business practices, it seemingly has little compunction about the aggressive tacks it’s already taken to shore upTo be fair, Anthropic indeed deserves credit for holding to its red lines with the Trump administration, fending off Hegseth’s explicit threats toby invoking the Defense Production Act . That’s no small thing when so many other tech companies and CEOs have discarded their professed Trump 1.0 principles—defending immigrant workers, decrying Trump’s racist statements, resigning from White House advisory positions—for the sake of government cash and business-friendly deregulation.But to celebrate Anthropic’s move through a mass virtuous-capitalism campaign is to give it too much credit; the company did, after all, willingly lend itself to this administration and its most openly craven partners until the final minute. And considering Anthropic’s lifelong track record of forgoing the principles that supposedly animate its existence , no one paying attention should expect this conscientious objection to last either. Enjoy Claude if you want; it’s a remarkable chatbot. Just don’t expect it to do anything further to save our democracy, or anyone’s life, or your efforts to prevent A.I. from ruining
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