The Pentagon Is Trying to Strip AI of Its Ethics. The Law Won’t Allow It | Opinion

President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to cease all use of Anthropic’s artificial intelligence technology. The president called Anthropic “radical left” and accused it of putting American lives at risk. What it did not do was make a single legally coherent argument for why the government has the authority to compel a private American company to redesign its products on the president’s demand. While Trump’s social media post was not specific as to what “civil and criminal consequences” might follow, earlier threats from the Pentagon included the cancellation of its $200 million Pentagon contract, designation as a “supply chain…