️ Anthropic sues 17 US agencies over AI safety restrictions

Anthropic filed a lawsuit against 17 US federal agencies and the Executive Office of the President after refusing to remove two restrictions from Claude: bans on lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of Americans.

According to the 48-page filing, the Department of Defense threatened to either force access to Claude under the Defense Production Act or classify Anthropic as a supply chain risk and cut it from government systems.

Anthropic argues the government cannot treat the company as critical for national security while also labeling it a threat.

The case challenges the legal basis for the action under 10 U.S.C. § 3252.

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