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Anthropic, which the US Department of War designated a \u201csupply-chain risk\u201d earlier this year, was not part of the agreement<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Pentagon has said that it has reached deals with major artificial intelligence firms to integrate their advanced AI capabilities into the agency’s classified networks.<\/p>\n

The US Department of War has been actively negotiating with the industry\u2019s leaders since the start of the year as it is trying to expand the application of AI in military operations and diversify the range of companies that provide the technology.<\/p>\n

It is going ahead with the push despite concerns among experts regarding the ability of the AI to reliably operate within the existing laws of war and its possible use to invade the privacy of civilians in peacetime.<\/p>\n

Agreements have been struck with SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Oracle to deploy their AI systems for \u201clawful operational use,\u201d<\/em> the Pentagon said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n

Artificial intelligence will be integrated into the Department of War\u2019s Impact Level 6 and Impact Level 7 networks to \u201cstreamline data synthesis, elevate situational understanding, and augment warfighter decision-making in complex operational environments,\u201d<\/em> the statement read.<\/p>\n

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Anthropic issues military AI \u2018kill switch\u2019 warning<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The US Department of War\u2019s official AI platform, GenAI.mil, has been used by over 1.3 million personnel in the last five months, \u201cgenerating tens of millions of prompts and deploying hundreds of thousands of agents,\u201d<\/em> it said. According to the Pentagon, the technology has allowed the execution of certain tasks to be sped up \u201cfrom months to days.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Notably, the statement excluded another major AI startup, Anthropic, which had a falling out with the Pentagon earlier this year after it refused to loosen safeguards for its technology. The company argued that its AI could be used for domestic surveillance or the deployment of automatic weapons without human oversight.<\/p>\n

The Department of War responded by designated Anthropic a \u201csupply-chain risk,\u201d<\/em> a rare label typically reserved for entities linked to Washington\u2019s foreign adversaries, effectively sidelining the firm from any future contracts.<\/p>\n

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth branded Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei an \u201cideological lunatic\u201d<\/em> during a US Senate hearing earlier this week. Hegseth compared the company\u2019s reluctance to agree to Pentagon\u2019s terms to \u201cBoeing giving us airplanes and telling us who we can shoot at.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Anthropic is currently challenging the Pentagon in court to have the \u201csupply-chain risk\u201d<\/em> label dropped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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