The War Department is pressing to scrap previously agreed limits on surveillance and autonomous weapons

Anthropic, one of Silicon Valley’s leading artificial intelligence firms, is locked in a standoff with the Pentagon over how far powerful AI systems could be used for war and surveillance.

The dispute centers on Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, which has been running on US military classified networks and was reportedly used in planning the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

The Department of Defense has blacklisted the company as a “supply chain risk” after it ignored the ultimatum to lift key safeguards by 5:01pm Eastern…

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