{"id":641558,"date":"2026-04-30T23:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/641558\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:30:08","slug":"pete-hegseth-calls-anthropics-amodei-a-lunatic-defends-pentagon-ai-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/641558\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth calls Anthropic\u2019s Amodei a \u2018lunatic\u2019, defends Pentagon AI use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington | US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said the US doesn\u2019t let artificial intelligence make lethal targeting decisions even as he called Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei an \u201cideological lunatic\u201d after a recent spat over military use of the company\u2019s chatbot.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth again slammed Anthropic over its insistence that its Claude chatbot not be used for mass surveillance against Americans or in fully autonomous weapons operations. Those demands led the Pentagon in March to take the unprecedented step of designating Anthropic a national security threat and moving to bar its products from the military.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington | US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said the US doesn\u2019t let artificial intelligence make lethal targeting decisions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-641558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}