House Democrat: ‘Good for Anthropic’ in rejecting Pentagon demands

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) praised the artificial intelligence company Anthropic for rejecting the Pentagon’s demands in how its AI technology is used by Friday evening. 

The company and the U.S. government have been in battle for weeks over Anthropic’s AI policy, which blocks its AI model Claude from being used to conduct mass surveillance or develop lethal autonomous weapons.

The company said in a statement Thursday that it “cannot in good conscience accede to their request.” 

“Good for Anthropic,” Khanna, who represents the nation’s technology capital, Silicon Valley, said in a Friday interview with Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo. “I don’t want technology used by a federal government to have mass surveillance on American citizens. That’s common sense.

“I mean, think about if you had a Democratic president, would you want them to have tools of AI to figure out whether you........

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