Anthropic, Hegseth’s Ultimatum and Threats to Safety and U.S. Competitiveness Bucking pressure from the U.S. Department of Defense , Anthropic is refusing to revise its   safeguards in its end user license agreement (EULA) and usage policies for its Claude AI model.  Hegseth had issued a Friday, March 27 2026 deadline for Anthropic to enable their instance of the technology to conduct mass surveillance and autonomous kill missions. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused , leadi

An LLM may emulate human speech, but it is still a machine. Our corporeal bodies may be machines--poorly-designed, prone to systemic, acute and chronic issues and decay but machines nonetheless. But we are not. References to Rene Descartes, Gilbert Ryle, Martin Buber and others.