Source: Persuasion
by Dean W Ball
“The deal, first negotiated between the Biden team and Anthropic, included two usage restrictions. First, Claude could not be used for mass surveillance of Americans. Second, Claude could not be used to control lethal autonomous weapons, which are weapons that can identify, track, and kill targets with no human in the loop at any point in the process. When it negotiated the expanded deal, the Trump administration had the opportunity to review these terms. It did, and it accepted them. Trump officials claim to have changed their mind not so much because they want to do mass surveillance on Americans or use autonomous lethal weapons imminently, but because they object altogether to the notion of privately imposed limitations on the military’s use of technology.” (03/04/26)