Washington DC, Feb. 28 -- Anthropic AI CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday pushed back against the Pentagon's decision to label the company a supply chain risk, calling it "retaliatory and punitive," in an interview with CBS.

He told CBS, "This is unprecedented and never happened before with an American company and it was made very clear in some of their statements and language that this was retaliatory and punitive. I don't know what else to call it."

This move comes after Anthropic refused to grant the military unrestricted access to its AI model, citing concerns over mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.

The Pentagon's designation restricts military contractors from working with Anthropic, effectively blocking the compan...