Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government
Without a single ‘You’re Fired’ joke
updated President Trump has escalated Anthropic’s dispute with the Defense Department with a social media post ordering the entire federal government purge the company’s software from its systems.
In a post on Truth Social, the President called Anthropic a “radical left, woke” company and said he was directing all federal agencies to cease use of its technology “immediately.” The move comes after a dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon over the AI firm’s refusal to relax safeguards barring its models from use in mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons systems.
“The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution,” Trump said, apparently referring to the part of the Constitution about spying on Americans with AI and letting autonomous weapons make targeting and firing decisions.
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