Anthropic Should Stand Its Ground Against the Pentagon: Dave Lee

They say your values aren’t truly values until they cost you something. For Anthropic co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei, that cost might come as soon as Tuesday when he visits the Pentagon for what’s been billed as a showdown meeting with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

“This is not a friendly meeting,” a senior defense official told Axios. The AI company, best known for its chatbot Claude, took a more diplomatic tone: “We are having productive conversations, in good faith,” a spokesperson said.

The topic of discussion could not be more serious. To date, Claude has been the only AI ...