Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is pushing back publicly after the Trump administration moved to ban the use of Claude across federal agencies.
On Friday, President Trump ordered all federal agencies to “immediately cease” the use of Anthropic’s technology, accusing the firm of strong-arming the Department of War for not complying with its Terms of Service.
In a new CBS interview, Amodei says the company’s stance is rooted in patriotism rather than defiance.
“I would say we are patriotic Americans. Everything we have done has been for the sake of this country, for the sake of supporting US national security. Our leaning forward in deploying our models with the military was done because we believe in this country. We believe in defeating our autocratic adversaries. We believe in defending America.”
He says the company stood its ground and represented American principles, but laments that they got threats instead of results.
“The red lines we have drawn, we drew because we believe that crossing those red lines is contrary to American values. And we wanted to stand up for American values.
When we were threatened with supply chain designation and the Defense Production Act, which are unprecedented intrusions into the private economy by the government, we exercised our classic First Amendment rights to speak up and disagree with the government.
Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world. And we are patriots in everything we have done here. We have stood up for the values of this country.”
Anthropic clashed with the Pentagon and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the use of its models across agency operations. Pentagon officials want to deploy AI systems for any lawful purpose, but Anthropic raised concerns about model use for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.
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