WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee, released the following statement after reports that the Pentagon threatened Anthropic over the company's requests for guardrails in DOD's use of its AI technology:
"Secretary Hegseth's attack on AI safety procedures contradicts common sense and undermines our national security.
"It also raises serious questions about why the DOD seeks to deploy autonomous weapons with an AI model neither designed nor ready to be used for such a purpose, as well to conduct mass domestic surveillance of American citizens. The Department must cease t...