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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
David Klepper,Matt O'Brien and Konstantin Toropin

Hegseth and Anthropic CEO set to meet as debate intensifies over the military's use of AI

OpenAI-Anthropic-Rivalry - (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plans to meet Tuesday with the CEO of Anthropic, with the artificial intelligence company the only one of its peers to not supply its technology to a new U.S. military internal network.

Anthropic, maker of the chatbot Claude, declined to comment on the meeting but CEO Dario Amodei has made clear his ethical concerns about unchecked government use of AI, including the dangers of fully autonomous armed drones and of AI-assisted mass surveillance that could track dissent.

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