title: Pentagon moves to designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk
author: u/LogicalWelder3467
contenttype: redditpost
publication: r/technology
published: 2026-02-27T23:36:38+00:00
sourceurl: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1rgmq6x/pentagonmovestodesignateanthropicasa/
word_count: 348
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/pentagon-moves-to-designate-anthropic-as-a-supply-chain-risk/
Score: 11863 | Comments: 646 | Subreddit: r/technology
Top Comments
u/Creeper4wwMann (2166 pts):
- no AI automous killing
- no mass surveillance
apparently that was too much to ask of the US government.
u/tsuazeu (6447 pts):
All because they wont do domestic mass surveillance and assist with weapons systems. Insane
u/N0SF3RATU (2312 pts):
A US company formed to address AI safety ...that (checks notes) is advocating for AI safety is now on the same list as adversarial state actors like China and Russia.
Wild.
u/toorigged2fail (780 pts):
Wait I'm confused, are they a threat to national security or are they essential to national security?
u/squashua (608 pts):
Trump is the supply chain risk
u/Setekh79 (231 pts):
Because they refused to surveil American citizens and make AI weapons.
Criminal evil government that must be dismantled.
u/tingulz (71 pts):
How about designating Trump and the current administration as a supply chain risk?
u/Cube00 (417 pts):
Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon fight
So OpenAI is banned too, right?
u/Stanky_fresh (43 pts):
Even the chuds on r/conservative aren't happy about this. It's absolutely fucking absurd that the government is mad at a company for not wanting to violate the constitution and indiscriminately kill people.
u/9-11GaveMe5G (154 pts):
What a bunch of fucking crybabies. This has big "I didn't want to go out with you anyway!" energy
u/puzilla (51 pts):
Easiest lawsuit win ever. In the same breath they talked about them being essential to national security.
u/demicus (44 pts):
WE ARE PUTTING ANTHROPIC ON DOUBLE-SECRET PROBATION!!!
u/DryAssP-word (98 pts):
So they won’t supply Hegdeath with enough murder eh?
u/mr_evilweed (115 pts):
"Free market" conservatives mind you.
All conservative values are kayfabe.
u/Pinappular (40 pts):
Comical how insufferable this admin is to attempt to make deals with or try to run a business with basic human rights standards.
The AI company they convince to do either is gonna end up at The Hague for war crimes or fabulously wealthy, or both.
u/Phreedom1 (39 pts):
This administration is the definition of evil. The ones who still support him, you know...the unintelligent ones ("smart people don't like me") won't even know what this decision against Anthropic means.
u/charing-cross (51 pts):
Here comes an epic lawsuit all the way up to the Supreme Court.
u/rolloutTheTrash (16 pts):
Well...I might reconsider allocating my personal AI budget to Anthropic instead. Claude's already my code buddy at work, would love to continue supporting them after all of this.
u/truehoax (14 pts):
Opus is literally the only model I trust with anything important. Claude is incredibly popular with the tech bro set and this is going to create at least some amount of blowback.
u/CondiMesmer (9 pts):
The Pentagon is just being objectively fucking evil here. There's no redeeming them. We're supposedly a democracy, and if so, how can we replace this fucked up military branch since they clearly do not have America or humanity's best interest in mind?
u/Makapakamoo (8 pts):
Bro literally didn't get what they want and are gonna fuss over it and mark them as the devil, ridiculous. "Oh my god a woman said no means no!!! She's a bitch and no one should look at her and she should have no friends" type shit.
u/Ticket2Midnite (5 pts):
Just makes me want to use Claude even more.
u/Morgentau7 (5 pts):
OpenAI gets supported against Anthropic, Paramount gets supported against Netflix. Trumps administration is taking turns
u/[deleted] (5 pts):
It is criminal that we have not kicked this criminal out of office.
What the absolute hell. There is zero question of this administration's motives to destroy this country and yet people are doing absolutely nothing but talking about it.
We are on the edge of not being able to go back, ever, without some sort of outside interference. They're going to suspend elections and threaten/arrest/worse anyone who dares speak out. We start protesting, we're going to start facing massive police resistance and maybe even the military, and no amount of Second Amendment Arming The Public libertarian delusions is going to see anything but one result of that, and it certainly won't be the protestors.
We can't wait for elections. We can't wait any more. But no one wants to do anything. Calling your elected officials does nothing if they are on the side of this madman and even if they're not, they don't want to do anything, period.
What the hell is this.
u/[deleted] (6 pts):
Finally, an AI company I can support.
u/gplfalt (26 pts):
I have a feeling this'll be in the courts before you can say would you loke to play a game
u/ahaz01 (6 pts):
I spent a long time in a major tech company that dealt with the govt. what the govt failed to realize was how small their vertical was compared to the commercial market. Anthropic will be fine without the govt
u/wandering_dex (6 pts):
Guess I know which AI I am using.
u/Indigoh (6 pts):
They're being cut off because they won't allow their models to control mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.
In other words, the US government just said that they want those things. That's the headline.
u/K5izzle (5 pts):
"They're a supply chain risk.... but they still have to provide us services for the next 6 months" ok there bud.
u/Finder77 (5 pts):
There's multiple layers of stupidity here.
The biggest is that the Hegseth opened the door to being dragged into court by making it obvious the reason Anthropic is being deemed a supply chain risk is retaliatory and not factual.
The second is that Anthropic's commitments to AI safety played a significant part in enabling them to bring in the talented people that got them where they are today. If they caved to the current Pentagon leadership on this they would lose much of that talent in a wave of resignations. They could also potentially face a massive breach of contract lawsuit from their employees that agreed to work for them specifically on the condition that their work NOT be used in the ways the government is demanding. The administration was forcing a condition on Anthropic they may have had no way of fulfilling. I suspect their CEO may have even stated as much to the government, but the whole notion of integrity and upholding previous agreements are not something the current administrations and its most ardent followers are able to grasp.
u/imjustsurfin (5 pts):
How can Anthropic be "essential for national security" AND "a supply-side risk" AT THE SAME TIME???!!!
So, any organisation, business, or corporation, that doesn't make itself completely subservient to the demands of this Junta, is now "a security\supply chain risk.
Hey, MAGA!!!
How's that "smaller government" thing going for you???
u/ILoveChimps (21 pts):
They know he and his administration are done in a couple of years and then the penalization will be removed. I see it more and more in businesses. My own Fortune 50 company has no real intent to actually change what we were planning on doing over the next four years (including last year); just a few minor tweaks to adjust to this buffoon. In 3 years when he's gone we'll just pick up with whomever is next.
u/Bpax94 (8 pts):
Never forgive supporters of this administration
u/DFu4ever (10 pts):
Anthropic needs to sue the shit out the US government.