Anthropic would ‘pollute' US military supply chain, Pentagon official says

The Pentagon cut ties with Anthropic because use of its artificial intelligence models would “pollute” the US military’s supply chain, a top War Department official claimed Thursday.Emil Michael, the War Department’s chief technology officer, said Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot was trained using a fundamentally different ideology from what the Pentagon wants for its systems.“We can’t have a company that has a different policy preference that is baked into the model through its constitution, its soul, its pol ...