The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has flagged new national security risks tied to Anthropic’s hiring of foreign personnel, including workers from China.
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Anthropic employs “a large number of foreign nationals to build and support its LLM products, including many from the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which increases the degree of adversarial risk should those employees comply with the PRC’s National Intelligence Law,” the court filing stated.
While other major U.S. artificial intelligence labs working with the DoD may have similar risks, their strong security practices and history of responsible, trustworthy behavior help reduce those risks. “Anthropic’s case, however, is different,” Pentagon undersecretary Emil Michael wrote in the declaration.
“Anthropic’s leadership demonstrated an intent to prevent the U.S. military’s lawful use of their LLM product, Claude, despite the company’s publicly stated knowledge that adversarial nation states have a practice …
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