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The Department of Defense said giving Anthropic continued access to its warfighting infrastructure would \u201cintroduce unacceptable risk\u201d to its supply chains in a court filing submitted<\/a> in response to the AI company\u2019s lawsuit. If you\u2019ll recall, Anthropic sued the government<\/a> to challenge the supply chain risk designation it received for refusing to allow its model to be used for mass surveillance and the development of autonomous weapons.<\/p>\n In its filing, the department explained that its secretary, Pete Hegseth, had a provision incorporated into AI service contracts, allowing the agency to use their technologies for any lawful purpose. Anthropic refused its terms and apparently, the company\u2019s behavior caused the Pentagon to question whether it truly was a \u201ctrusted partner\u201d that it could work with when it comes to \u201chighly sensitive\u201d initiatives. \u201cAfter all, AI systems are acutely vulnerable to manipulation, and Anthropic could attempt to disable its technology or preemptively alter the behavior of its model either before or during ongoing warfighting operations, if Anthropic \u2014 in its discretion \u2014 feels that its corporate \u201cred lines\u201d are being crossed,\u201d the Pentagon wrote in its filing. \u201cDoW deemed that an unacceptable risk to national security,\u201d it added, referring to the agency as the Department of War, which is the Trump administration\u2019s preferred name for it.<\/p>\n It was due to those concerns that President Trump ordered federal agencies<\/a> to stop using its technology, the filing reads. The company is asking the court to issue a preliminary injunction and put a pause on a ban while it\u2019s challenging its supply chain risk designation in court. While Anthropic\u2019s clients could continue working with the company on non-defense-related projects, it says the label could cause it to lose billions of dollars in revenue. It\u2019s not quite clear if Anthropic is still trying to reach a new deal<\/a> with the government, as was reported before it filed its lawsuit. As The New York Times notes, Microsoft, Google and OpenAI filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of Anthropic since then, asking the court to put an injunction on the government ban.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n