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Amodei 'We Are Patriots' CBS Interview + 'The Adolescence of Technology' Essay — Refuses Pentagon Demand to Remove Claude Safeguards
In his first interview after the Pentagon blacklist attempt, Amodei stated 'we are patriots' while defending Anthropic's refusal to strip safeguards preventing Claude from being used in mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. His January 2026 essay 'The Adolescence of Technology' frames the period as one where AI poses genuine risks to national security, economies, and democracy — and lays out specific policy remedies rather than just warnings. The Pentagon conflict centers on Anthropic's constitutional AI constraints that the DoD wanted removed as a contract condition.
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