WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, opened an investigation into the Department of Defense (DoD)'s decision to designate Anthropic a "supply chain risk" after the company refused DoD demands to remove certain contractual guardrails preventing the misuse of its AI tools. The senator is also probing the contract that OpenAI announced with DoD just hours after Secretary Hegseth declared Anthropic a supply chain risk, since this contract appears to lack the necessary safeguards to protect Americans from government surveillance and prevent civilian harm in the course of military operations.
DoD is increasingly...