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coffinbirthtoday at 7:15 AM0 repliesview on HN

But in the end it's all just a deceptive theater.

While Anthropic publicly claims to refuse to help the MIC with warfare and surveillance, behind closed doors, Anthropic actively deploys its engineers and models to assist the NSA with espionage and offensive cyber warfare. Just look at the many contradictions:

* Anthropic secretly sent its own engineers directly to the NSA to deploy its (at that time unreleased) model "Mythos"[2,7]

* While the Pentagon has publicly labeled Anthropic a "supply-chain risk", the Trump administration has simultaneously been working hand-in-hand with Anthropic behind the scenes to secure its upcoming initial public offering (IPO)[1]

* If the U.S. government truly believed Anthropic was a national security threat, it would completely isolate the company. Instead, the Trump administration has actively encouraged major American banks and financial institutions to use Anthropic's models[1]

* Anthropic is heavily embedded within Palantir, the foundational data platform of the Military-Industrial Complex[3][4]

* Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense operates hand-in-hand with Palantir. Ukraine uses a specialized Palantir AI platform called PRISMA to fight Russian forces. Anthropic's language models power the text and data analysis within this system[4]

* Ukraine uses Anthropic-backed Palantir software in secretive command centers to coordinate its aggressive long-range drone campaign inside Russian territory[8]

* Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, has stated that the company will not allow its AI to power fully autonomous weapons that take humans out of the loop. However, in Ukraine, the AI functions as a decision-support tool. Because a human commander makes the final choice to press the button or launch the drone, Anthropic's terms of service are not technically violated. This allows Anthropic to protect its "ethical AI" brand while still letting its technology serve as a vital asset for Western-backed military operations[5]

Remember the Minab school attack, where the U.S. Military killed 156 civilians, including 120 schoolchildren[6]? Given all the evidence it's highly likely that Palantir and Anthropic played and still play a major role in perpetrating the war of aggression and all the crimes involved.

Personally, I find it morally unacceptable to use U.S. AI tools, because I do not want to support them financially and thus support the crimes they are involved in.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/blacklist...

[2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-dod-blacklist-cour...

[3]: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/12/karp-palantir-anthropic-clau...

[4]: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/what-is-palantirs-prisma-the...

[5]: https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack

[7]: https://archive.is/DyuAv

[8]: https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/palantirs-prisma-how-an...