In Silicon Valley’s quest to win hearts and minds over its artificial intelligence innovations, the spiraling public spat between Anthropic and its government client, the Pentagon, offers a revealing look at how public relations, and not AI, has become the real weapon of note.

A recent Washington Post opinion piece claimed that “standing up to unreasonable and ethically challenging requests from the government ought to be commonplace in a free country. That’s what the artificial intelligence powerhouse Anthropic did last week.”

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By its own public statements, and in some apparently leaked communications, Anthropic, as a private company, appears to be attempting to bend the Pentagon, and, by extension, our national security establishment, to its own boardroom’s political and cultural preferences.

These preferences, apparently influenced in part by the waning Effective Altruism movement, whose odd at‑best tenets once infused so many late‑night, tech-bro-group-house philosophy 101 discussions, are pushing Anthropic toward rigid, abstract constraints that are ultimately incompatible with the real‑world demands that our nation’s warfighters may one day face.

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