U.S. Department of War

Also written as: Pentagon · the Department of War

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• The court closed the testing argument, stating testing is no panacea, refusals vary with wording, and the Department cannot utilize AI systems that remain trapped in amber.

• The panel responded that the possibility of a kinetic operation to capture a foreign head of state underscores the fraught nature of the dispute and the Department's need to know its systems will work.

• The Department declared that models with five to ten trillion parameters make rigorous analysis or auditing of outputs mathematically impossible.

• Anthropic conceded some legitimacy to the Department's concern about the opacity of these systems generally.

• The Pentagon’s operation is in breach of the Hatch Act and the Smith‑Mundt Act.

• The Department's memo said an Anthropic executive questioned the propriety of a contractor's use of Claude for a sensitive military operation abroad.

• Model training is the primary mechanism through which Anthropic can influence the behavior of models used by the Department.

• The U.S. Department of War employs conservative influencers as special government employees to conduct propaganda and surveillance.

• Jennica Pounds was employed by the U.S. Department of War as a special government employee in mid‑August.

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Origin: first recognised while reading Covert Pentagon propagandists are tracking anti-war Americans, skirting the law - The Grayzone · 2026-09-16 16:10