Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon

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8. Its a bit more complicated.....

..... they were being intimated by more than just the loss of a contract. The threat was being classified as a supply chain risk. This would have had a wide ranging negative effect on their ability to sell their products.

Since their ethical restrictions on the use of their product has nothing to do with supply chain risk, I would call this extortion.