03/02/2026
Anthropic's CEO turned down $200M from the Pentagon rather than remove AI guardrails against mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Defense officials threatened to blacklist them. The President ordered agencies to cut ties.
His response: "We cannot in good conscience accede to their request."
Then Sam Altman backed him publicly. OpenAI and Google employees signed an open letter in support.
This is what responsible AI looks like when it costs something.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in an exclusive interview with CBS News that the AI company sought to draw "red lines" in the government's use of its technol...