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OpenAI is amending its hastily arranged AI contract with the Pentagon after Sam Altman admitted the deal looked opportunistic and sloppy, pledging safeguards to bar domestic mass surveillance and reductions in use by defense agencies; the controversy follows employee and public outcry and broader scrutiny as other agencies move to halt use of Anthropic’s AI products.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei defends a limited, two-red-lines stance on government use of its AI—no domestic mass surveillance and no fully autonomous weapons—while denouncing the Pentagon’s rapid supply-chain designation as excessive and urging Congress to set guardrails as AI tech speeds forward. He says Anthropic remains willing to support U.S. national security under strict terms and may off-board if a deal cannot be reached, arguing for a balance between security needs and democratic values.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei reiterates two guardrails—blocking mass surveillance of Americans and prohibiting fully autonomous weapons—as a condition for any military collaboration, even as the Pentagon pushes for broader, unguarded use of Claude. The dispute followed Trump-era contract cuts and a Defense Department push to phase Anthropic out within six months; Amodei argues the guardrails reflect U.S. values and safety, while Pentagon officials push for more permissive use. The sides have not reconciled, and Congress may weigh in on AI safeguards.
A lawsuit in Norfolk, Virginia, reveals that Flock Safety's license plate cameras logged a resident's location 526 times over four months, raising concerns about mass surveillance and privacy violations, with critics arguing that such tracking without warrants infringes on Fourth Amendment rights.
A lawsuit in Norfolk, Virginia, reveals that Flock Safety's license plate cameras tracked two residents' locations hundreds of times over four months, raising concerns about mass surveillance and privacy violations under the Fourth Amendment. The case highlights the widespread use of ALPR technology by law enforcement and private entities, and ongoing debates about privacy rights and legal limits.
The Guardian's defence and security editor recounts the story of how the newspaper came to publish Edward Snowden's revelations about mass surveillance techniques and data gathering by intelligence agencies. The leak of tens of thousands of top-secret documents led to a small group of reporters and IT experts working in a special projects room, where they were advised they could be breaking the Official Secrets Act. The revelations were an inflection point, leading to a global debate about who gets to keep what information and for how long.