The Pentagon’s total war against Anthropic
- Mar 17
- 1 min read
Communication between characters as constitutionally different as Amodei and Hegseth was always going to be strained, but the breakdown was about more than “vibes and personalities.”
It was about an AI company and the Pentagon trying to account for disparate and extreme visions of tomorrow in clauses and provisions written for today. It was a collision between two movements that believe, in different and inherently incompatible ways, that they might be on the cusp of achieving absolute power, either for themselves or for the systems they’re helping to build, and that current concessions will extrapolate into total failure.
Anthropic is a company both motivated and haunted by speculative futures, and its emphasis on hypothetical uses and harms strained its relationship with the government from the start.
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