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Right in the middle of the ongoing feud between the Silicon Valley AI company Anthropic and the U.S. Department of Defense over whether the military will use\u2014or not use\u2014Anthropic\u2019s large language models is yet another company: Palantir.<\/p>\n
Palantir, the Miami-based data analytics and artificial intelligence platform, is a key software provider for the Department of Defense\u2014and the main channel by which the Department has been using Anthropic\u2019s large language model, Claude.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are legitimately still in the middle of all this,\u201d CEO Alex Karp said in an interview with Fortune on the sidelines of the company\u2019s twice-a-year AIP conference on Thursday. \u201cIt\u2019s our stack that runs the LLMs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Karp says he had been in numerous discussions with all parties involved\u2014discussions he declined to give specifics about, as he says he doesn\u2019t want to \u201cout conversations\u201d or \u201cbash people.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Karp does want to make one thing clear: The Defense Department is not using AI for domestic mass surveillance on U.S. citizens\u2014and, to his knowledge, it has no plans to.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout commenting on internal dialogs, there was never a sense that these products would be used domestically,\u201d Karp said. \u201cThe Department of War is not planning to use these products domestically. That\u2019s a completely different kettle of fish\u2026\u00a0 The terms the Department of War wants are completely focused on non-American citizens in a war context.\u201d<\/p>\n
Palantir has a vast business doing work for the U.S. government, including the DoD. Anthropic partnered with Palantir in 2024 to offer its AI technology to the DoD via Palantir. Anthropic also began working directly with the DoD last year to create a version of its technology designed for the Defense Department.<\/p>\n
The contentious back-and-forth between Anthropic and the Defense Department has been ongoing since around January, and the two sides don\u2019t agree on what set it off. Statements that Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael made last week allege that Palantir had notified the Pentagon that Anthropic was inquiring about whether its models had been used for the U.S. military mission to capture Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. (Anthropic has refuted this characterization, asserting it hasn\u2019t discussed the use of Claude for specific operations \u201cwith any industry partners, including Palantir, outside of routine discussions on strictly technical matters\u201d). Ever since, the two sides have been locked in a fight over whether Anthropic can write contractual limits on how its models are used. <\/p>\n
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has published multiple blog posts on the matter, including an initial statement at the end of February asserting that the Defense Department had refused to accept safeguards that its LLMs not be used for domestic mass surveillance or the deployment of fully autonomous weapons. Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, later designated Anthropic a \u201csupply-chain risk,\u201d threatening many of the company\u2019s commercial relationships, and prompting Anthropic to sue the Pentagon over the designation.<\/p>\n
\u2018Totally in favor\u2019 of domestic terms of engagement<\/p>\n
Palantir, which was funded by the CIA\u2019s venture capital arm early on and whose software has been used in counter-terrorism efforts abroad, has long been accused of helping government and intelligence agencies spy on civilians and potential domestic suspects. Karp has repeatedly rebutted such claims for over a decade and has spoken about the importance of setting technical guardrails around technology that could be used in the U.S. for domestic surveillance. Palantir early on created a \u201cPrivacy and Civil Liberties\u201d team\u2014an interdisciplinary group of engineers, lawyers, philosophers, and social scientists\u2014tasked with building privacy\u2011protective features into its products and fostering a culture of responsible use. The team helped set up internal channels, including an ethics hotline, for employees to flag work they viewed as crossing ethical lines.<\/p>\n
Civil liberties groups, however, continue to accuse the company of doing the opposite\u2014by helping the government surveil. The company\u2019s relationship with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in particular, which began under the Obama Administration, has invited intense scrutiny and criticism from both external critics and the company\u2019s own employees\u2014criticism that has only escalated over the last year as the Trump Administration has pushed ICE into an aggressive crackdown in cities like Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
Karp told Fortune he is \u201cvery sympathetic with arguments against using these products inside the U.S.\u201d and said that he is \u201ctotally in favor\u201d of setting terms of engagement and limits to how domestic agencies can use artificial intelligence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cQuite frankly, I think we should self-impose them,\u201d Karp said of these terms of engagement. \u201cThe Valley should have a consortium: This is what we\u2019re going to do, and this is what we\u2019re not going to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But Karp drew a sharp distinction between whether tech companies should set terms with domestic agencies and whether they should set them with the Department of Defense, which is primarily focused on managing the United States\u2019 relationships with other countries and its adversaries.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we\u2019re talking about now is using products vis-a-vis someone who\u2019s trying to kill our service members,\u201d Karp said, noting that he personally supports \u201cwide license\u201d of usage for the Department of Defense specifically.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we knew China and Russia and Iran wouldn\u2019t build them, I would be in favor of very heavy\u2014very heavy\u2014legal constraints,\u201d Karp said. But he points out that American adversaries will build them and use them against the U.S. anyway. \u201cI don\u2019t think this is an opinion. I think this is a fact, and that fact means I think the Department of War should have wide license to use these products.\u201d<\/p>\n
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