Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announced the company is refusing Department of War demands to remove safeguards preventing mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons applications of their Claude AI system. The DoW has threatened to designate Anthropic a 'supply chain risk' and invoke the Defense Production Act if they maintain these restrictions, despite Claude being extensively deployed across national security agencies for intelligence analysis and operational planning. This represents the first major confrontation between a frontier AI company and the military over ethical AI deployment boundaries.