Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War (5 minute read)

Anthropic believes in the importance of using AI to defend the US and other cracies and to defeat its autocratic adversaries. This is why it has worked proactively to deploy its models to the Department of War and the intelligence community. However, it also acknowledges that, in some cases, AI can undermine, rather than defend, cratic values. Two such use cases are mass domestic surveillance and full autonomous weapons. Anthropic has refused to accede to the Department of War's request to remove safeguards in its models.