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Greg Stanton: “Reports have emerged that the Defense Department is…”

Featuring: Greg Stanton, Democratic | U.S. House, Arizona, District 4

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Stanton Keynote Address: Security & Defence PLuS — Strategy, Security & Defense Conference at ASU

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That is not what our Constitution specifically describes. It says that Congress uniquely has that power. There was another seismic shift in politics and defense this week. Reports have emerged that the Defense Department is pressuring Anthropic and an American AI company to strip safety guardrails from its systems for use in domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons without human oversight. This came just days before the Pentagon used Anthropic Claude AI tool in strikes against Iran and weeks after it reportedly used the tools in the operation in Venezuela. (16:35–16:49)

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Asserts that the Defense Department is pressuring Anthropic to remove safety guardrails from AI systems for surveillance and weapons.

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