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The Pentagon's AI Fight Was Never Just About Anthropic (w/ Hayden Field)

2026-02-28 News & Politics
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Hayden Field of The Verge joins Andrew Egger to discuss the Pentagon’s fight with Anthropic and what it means for the future of AI. After Anthropic drew red lines around autonomous weapons and domestic mass surveillance, the Department of Defense responded by labeling the company a “supply chain risk” -- a designation typically reserved for foreign adversaries. Read more from Hayden Field in The Verge, "We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots": https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/885963/anthropic-dod-pentagon-tech-workers-ai-labs-react Read more from Andrew Egger's Morning Shots, "AI Death Machines. No Human Oversight. What Could Go Wrong?": https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ai-death-machines-no-human-oversight-hegseth-anthropic-claude-military Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join

Top Comments (10)

@Doug-mu2ev 2026-02-28

Thank you for covering this! It is critical that we have legislation over AI and if people don’t know what’s going on they cannot pressure their representatives to address it!

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@sunnyinaz8825 2026-02-28

They moved all the scientists out to make room for the mad scientists.

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@markdeckard7651 2026-02-28

The only "supply chain risk" is a fox news weekend host in charge of the DoD and a convicted felon in the white house

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@yohoyoho13 2026-03-01

"Any lawful use" means nothing when you ignore existing law, do whatever you feel, then drag things out through the court system until the Supreme Court tells you no...then you do it again anyway.

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@patriciablank5358 2026-02-28

Kegsbreath's feud with Anthropic was a gift to the American people. We now know something we probably weren't supposed to know--it was in writing to use AI to track and kill Americans autonomously.

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@policyguy3103 2026-02-28

You know we're in serious trouble when an AI corporation exercises more caution and concern for the public interest than the government that is supposed to regulate them.

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@mgscheue 2026-02-28

Insane. The US government out to destroy a successful American company because said company refuses to be involved with autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. on US citizens.Big props to Anthropic for not allowing themselves to by bullied by these clowns. Happy to have recently paid for a one year Pro subscription.

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@edwardwelch6642 2026-02-28

Hegseth has no moral compass. We are less safe, if Hegseth gets more power.

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@Doug-mu2ev 2026-02-28

It’s like every one of the moronic meatheads in our government watched the Terminator movies and instead of seeing the cautionary tale they said, “That’s so cool!”

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@existentialbrew 2026-02-28

Andrew is a real star for The Bulwark. So intelligent and a great communicator.

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