Trump said today (February 28): "The United States of America will never allow radical left-wing, woke ideological companies to dictate how our great military fights and wins wars! This authority belongs to your Commander-in-Chief, President Trump, and the outstanding generals I have appointed to lead our military.
The left-wing lunatics at the AI company Anthropic have made catastrophic mistakes—they tried to coerce the Department of War, forcing the military to comply with their terms of service rather than our Constitution. Their selfishness is putting American lives in danger, endangering our military, and jeopardizing our national security.
Therefore, I am ordering all federal agencies of the U.S. government: immediately stop using all technologies from Anthropic. We don't need it, we don't want it, and we will never do business with them again! For institutions at all levels, including the Department of War, that are currently using Anthropic products, there will be a six-month transition period. Anthropic had better cooperate obediently during this transition period and provide assistance; otherwise, I will use my full presidential power to force them to comply, and then pursue significant civil and criminal liabilities. We will decide the fate of this country—not by an out-of-control radical left-wing AI company, not by a group of people who don't understand the real world.
Thank you for paying attention to this matter. Make America Great Again! President Donald J. Trump
Comment: Trump's comprehensive ban on Anthropic appears to be about protecting the military and national security, but in reality, it is forcing AI companies to abandon all safety standards and become tools of war completely. The reason why Anthropic refuses to comply is not because they are opposing the president, but because they uphold the core ethics that AI should not be used for unlimited killing or go beyond human control, and they do not want technology to become an accomplice to mass killing and surveillance, nor do they want to bear responsibility for the dangerous decisions of the military. However, Trump has vilified this rational bottom line as "left-wing madness," making naked threats with administrative power and criminal liability. Essentially, it is using hegemony to suppress ethics, making technology bow to war, which both tears apart American society and opens a dangerous door for the uncontrolled militarization of AI.
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