Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the company will not remove two safeguards from its contracts with the Department of War, even under threats to cut it off or label it a supply chain risk. The two safeguards bar using Anthropic's AI for mass domestic surveillance and for fully autonomous weapons, which the statement says frontier AI systems are not yet reliable enough to power. Amodei writes that Anthropic was the first frontier AI company to deploy models on US government classified networks and that it gave up several hundred million dollars in revenue by cutting off firms linked to the Chinese Communist Party. He adds that Anthropic would help the Department transition to another provider if it chooses to offboard the company.