AI chose nukes in 95% of war games. The Pentagon wants to deploy it anyway.
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Anthropic had a $200M Pentagon contract, classified network access, and the full trust of the US military. Then they asked a question. In November 2024, Anthropic became the first frontier AI company to deploy inside the Pentagon’s classified networks. The partnership was built with Palantir. By July 2025, the contract had grown to $200 million — more than most defense startups see in a decade. Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, was everywhere. Intelligence analysis. Cyber operations. Operational planning. Modeling and simulation. The Department of War called it “mission-critical.” Then came January 2026. Claude was used in a classified military operation in Venezuela — the capture of Nicolás Maduro. Anthropic asked their partner Palantir a simple question: how exactly was our technology used? In most industries, that’s called due diligence. The Pentagon called it insubordination. The company that asked “how is our AI being used?” was about to be labeled a threat to national security. Seven Days That Changed Everything Here’s the timeline. It moves fast. That’s the point. February 24: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, summons Dario Amodei — Anthropic’s CEO — to the Pentagon. The ask is blunt: remove every safeguard from Claude. Mass domestic surveillance. Fully autonomous weapons. All of it. The deadline: February 27, 5:01 PM ET. February 26: Amodei publishes his answer. It’s two letters long. No. His open statement laid out two red lines he wouldn’t cross: No mass domestic surveillance. AI assembling your location data, browsing history, and financial records into a profile — automatically, at scale. Amodei’s point: current law allows the government to buy this data without a warrant. AI makes it possible to weaponize it. “The law has not yet caught up with the rapidly growing capabilities of AI.” No fully autonomous weapons. Translation: no removing humans from the decision to kill…
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