Dario Amodei

"in a narrow set of cases, [Anthropic believes] AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values."

"We believe the government should have the ability to block unsafe deployments, as part of a statutory process that is transparent, fair, clear, and grounded in technical facts."

""We believe this is a misunderstanding," the company wrote, adding that it’s complying with the order while working to restore access."

"Anthropic said it did not believe the steps taken by the government were warranted by the concern it flagged about a potential security issue."

"Distillation attacks turn hundreds of billions of dollars in American investment and [research and development] into a massive subsidy for our geopolitical competitors."

"A powerful AI looking across billions of conversations from millions of people could gauge public sentiment, detect pockets of disloyalty forming, and stamp them out before they grow."

"We continued good-faith conversations about our usage policy to ensure Anthropic can continue to support the government's national security mission in line with what our models can reliably and responsibly do."

"Dario expressed appreciation for the Department’s work and thanked the Secretary for his service."

"Illegitimate and prone to abuse."

"These threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request."

"We support the use of AI for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions."

"cannot in good conscience accede to the Pentagon’s demands to allow unrestricted use of its technology"

"It is the Department’s prerogative to select contractors most aligned with their vision."

"cannot in good conscience accede to the Defense Department’s demands."

"reiterated the company’s red lines and said they wouldn’t interfere with the Pentagon’s operations."

"'No amount of intimidation or punishment from the Department of War will change our position on mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.'"

"Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters – with our two requested safeguards in place."

"Using AI for autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance is simply outside the bounds of what today’s technology can safely and reliably do."

"No amount of intimidation or punishment from the Department of War will change our position on mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons."

"We cannot in good conscience accede to their request."

"cannot in good conscience accede to the Defense Department’s demands."

""cannot in good conscience accede" to the Defense Department's demands."

"Anthropic cannot in good conscience accede to their request."

"We do not believe this action is legally sound, and we see no choice but to challenge it in court."

"We will not knowingly provide a product that puts America’s warfighters and civilians at risk."

"However, in a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values."

"Regardless, these threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request."

"Anthropic 'cannot in good conscience accede' to the DoD's request to provide full access to its AI models."

"'Anthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions.'"

"They 'may prove critical for our national defense,' but current AI models are 'simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons.'"

"The threats are 'inherently contradictory: one labels us a security risk; the other labels Claude as essential to national security.'"

"Anthropic’s 'strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters—with our two requested safeguards in place.'"

"the vast majority of Anthropic’s customers are unaffected by the supply-chain risk designation."

"It exists to protect the government rather than to punish a supplier; in fact, the law requires the Secretary of War to use the least restrictive means necessary to accomplish the goal of protecting the supply chain."

"It is not in our interest to escalate the situation."

"a difficult day for the company."

"retaliatory and punitive"

"Frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons."

"Anthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions."

"we do not believe this action is legally sound, and we see no choice but to challenge it in court."

""legally unsound""

"the supply chain risk designation "exists to protect the government rather than to punish a supplier""

"the ChatGPT deal is mostly "safety theater""

""Even for Department of War contractors, the supply chain risk designation doesn’t (and can’t) limit uses of Claude or business relationships with Anthropic if those are unrelated to their specific Department of War contracts.""

""we do not believe this action is legally sound, and we see no choice but to challenge it in court.""

"The Constitution does not allow the government to wield its enormous power to punish a company for its protected speech."

"the impact of this designation is fairly small and the company was 'gonna be fine'"

"This designation violates free speech and due process rights."

"This effort to punish one of the leading U.S. AI companies will undoubtedly have consequences for the United States’ industrial and scientific competitiveness in the field of artificial intelligence and beyond."

"I didn't think the technology was good enough yet, and should not be used for these purposes."

"the AISI testing parameters were not representative of any of our production models."

"spoken to officials across the US government and offered to work with them."

"AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs."

"We must pace the frontier."

"urged the pace of development to be slowed down"

"it had advanced 'drastically faster' than expected, including in its 'ability to build the next generation of AI'."

"calls for AI development to slow down."

"We should slow down."

"any action to rein in AI should be done without sacrificing commercial advantage."

"powerful AI tools could be used by defence agencies to conduct mass domestic surveillance and to deploy fully autonomous weapons of war."

""A Chinese lead would pose grave danger for the US and the world.""

"if managed poorly... could be a risk to humanity as a whole."

"It's a way to win safely."