Tomorrow at 5pm, the Pentagon’s deadline for Anthropic expires.

Their crime? Refusing to let Claude be used for mass surveillance of American citizens and autonomous weapons systems without human oversight.

Now think about this carefully:

If they’re firing the one AI company that won’t do these things, it is crystal clear what they intend to do with the ones that will.

Grok is already signed up. OpenAI and Google are “close.” They’ve all agreed to “any lawful use” — a phrase that means absolutely nothing from an administration with a documented track record of flouting both domestic and international law.

The Fourth Amendment prohibits unlawful search and seizure. It’s not a suggestion. It’s not a guideline. It is the supreme law of this land. And “trust us, it’ll be lawful” is not a safeguard — it’s a punchline.

Anthropic is the last company standing between AI-powered mass surveillance of the American public and the people demanding it. That’s not a technology story. That is an existential threat to American democracy.

Business leaders: you use Claude. Your companies run on it. Eight of the ten largest corporations in America run on it. If Anthropic is destroyed for holding this line, no company will ever hold a line again.

Speak up. Call your representatives in Congress on the Armed Services and Intelligence committees. Share this post. Say it out loud.

#IStandWithClaude

The deadline is tomorrow. Silence is complicity.