{"id":53051,"date":"2026-03-18T01:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=53051"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:12:25","slug":"department-of-defense-responds-to-anthropic-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/03\/18\/department-of-defense-responds-to-anthropic-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department Says Anthropic Can\u2019t Be Trusted With Warfighting Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">The Trump administration<\/span> argued in a court filing on Tuesday that it did not violate Anthropic\u2019s First Amendment rights by designating the AI developer a supply-chain risk and predicted that the company\u2019s lawsuit against the government will fail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cThe First Amendment is not a license to unilaterally impose contract terms on the government, and Anthropic cites nothing to support such a radical conclusion,\u201d US Department of Justice attorneys wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The response was filed in a federal court in San Francisco, one of two venues where Anthropic is challenging the Pentagon\u2019s decision to sanction the company with a label that can bar companies from defense contracts over concerns about potential security vulnerabilities. Anthropic argues the Trump administration overstepped its authority in applying the label and preventing the company\u2019s technologies from being used inside the department. If the designation holds, Anthropic could lose up to billions of dollars in expected revenue this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Anthropic wants to resume business as usual until the litigation is resolved. Rita Lin, the judge overseeing the San Francisco case, has scheduled a hearing for next Tuesday to decide whether to honor Anthropic\u2019s request.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Justice Department attorneys, writing for the Department of Defense and other agencies in the Tuesday filing, described Anthropic\u2019s concerns about potentially losing business as \u201clegally insufficient to constitute irreparable injury\u201d and called on Lin to deny the company a reprieve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The attorneys also wrote that the Trump administration was motivated to act because of \u201cconcerns about Anthropic\u2019s potential future conduct if it retained access\u201d to government technology systems. \u201cNo one has purported to restrict Anthropic\u2019s expressive activity,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The government argues that Anthropic\u2019s push to limit how the Pentagon can use its AI technology led Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to \u201creasonably\u201d determine that \u201cAnthropic staff might sabotage, maliciously introduce unwanted function, or otherwise subvert the design, integrity, or operation of a national security system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The Department of Defense and Anthropic have been fighting over potential restrictions on the company\u2019s Claude AI models. Anthropic believes its models shouldn&#8217;t be used to facilitate broad surveillance of Americans and are not currently reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Several legal experts previously told WIRED that Anthropic has a strong argument that the supply-chain measure amounts to illegal retaliation. But courts often favor national security arguments from the government, and Pentagon officials have described Anthropic as a contractor that has gone rogue and that its technologies cannot be trusted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cIn particular, DoW became concerned that allowing Anthropic continued access to DoW\u2019s technical and operational warfighting infrastructure would introduce unacceptable risk into DoW supply chains,\u201d Tuesday\u2019s filing states. \u201cAI systems are acutely vulnerable to manipulation, and Anthropic could attempt to disable its technology or preemptively alter the behavior of its model either before or during ongoing warfighting operations, if Anthropic\u2014in its discretion\u2014feels that its corporate \u2018red lines\u2019 are being crossed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The Defense Department and other federal agencies are working to replace Anthropic\u2019s AI tools with products from competing tech companies in the next few months. One of the military\u2019s top uses of Claude is through Palantir data analysis software, people familiar with the matter have told WIRED.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In Tuesday\u2019s filing, the lawyers argued that the Pentagon \u201ccannot simply flip a switch at a time when Anthropic currently is the only AI model cleared for use\u201d on the department\u2019s\u2019s \u201cclassified systems and high-intensity combat operations are underway.\u201d The department is working to deploy AI systems from Google, OpenAI, and xAI as alternatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">A number of companies and groups, including AI researchers, Microsoft, a federal employee labor union, and former military leaders have filed court briefs in support of Anthropic. None have been filed in support of the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Anthropic has until Friday to file a counter response to the government\u2019s arguments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Justice #Department #Anthropic #Trusted #Warfighting #Systems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration argued in a court filing on Tuesday that it did not violate Anthropic\u2019s First Amendment rights by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53053,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53051\/revisions\/53053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}