Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has formally denied the Pentagon’s assertions that it retains control over its Claude AI models once they are deployed on classified military networks, according to a new court filing. The company stated it has “no back door or remote kill switch” for its systems and that its personnel cannot log into defense department systems to modify or disable a running model. [1]
This dispute became public in a filing to a federal appeals court in Washington, DC, where Anthropic challenged what it called the “key US administration claim” that the firm granted itself an “operational veto.” The AI system supplied to the Pentagon is a “static” model, the company argued, meaning it does not change on its own after deployment and the company cannot push unsanctioned changes. [1]
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