President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. federal agencies to immediately cease using Anthropic‘s AI technology. The directive gives departments six months to phase out the systems, escalating a dispute after Anthropic refused Pentagon demands to remove safeguards preventing Claude from being used for unrestricted military purposes like autonomous weapons.
President Donald Trump has directed all U.S. federal agencies to stop using artificial intelligence technology developed by Anthropic. This escalates a dispute between the AI company and the Pentagon over how the military uses the technology.
In a Truth Social post on Friday, Trump said agencies must “immediately cease” using Anthropic products. Departments already using the technology have a six-month phase-out period.
“The United States of America will never allow a radical left, woke company to dictate how our great military fights and wins wars!” Trump wrote. The order follows Anthropic’s refusal to remove safeguards preventing its Claude AI from being used for “mass domestic surveillance” or “fully autonomous weapons.”
Trump called the situation a threat to U.S. troops and national security. “Their selfishness is putting American lives at risk, our troops in danger, and our national security in jeopardy,” he said.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on X following Trump’s post, calling Anthropic’s move “a master class in arrogance and betrayal.” He said he is directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security.
The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology criticized the move in a statement. “The President is wielding the full weight of the federal government to blacklist a company for taking a narrowly-tailored, principled stance to restrict some of the most extreme uses of AI you could imagine,” said CDT President and CEO Alexandra Givens.
