WASHINGTON — Anthropic asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to reconsider its ruling backing the Pentagon’s designation of the company as a supply-chain risk, Reuters reported.
Virginia Times could not retrieve Tuesday’s petition directly. The new filing is attributed to Reuters; the earlier court opinion and Anthropic’s public statement were available for review.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Anthropic’s challenge on Sept. 25. The case concerns the Pentagon’s exclusion of Claude, the company’s artificial intelligence system, from its supply chain.
In its opinion, the court said Anthropic’s restrictions had prevented Claude from completing some government tasks. The majority found sufficient support for the Pentagon’s conclusion that continued use presented a national-security risk covered by federal law.
The court also rejected the company’s constitutional arguments. It concluded that the exclusion followed Anthropic’s refusal to accept a contract term, rather than its advocacy for government regulation of AI.
Anthropic has defended the safeguards as necessary protections. In a Feb. 27 statement, the company said negotiations had stalled over its prohibitions on mass domestic surveillance of Americans and fully autonomous weapons.
The company argued that current AI models were not reliable enough for fully autonomous weapons and that mass domestic surveillance would violate fundamental rights. Those were Anthropic’s stated reasons for maintaining the restrictions.
Its February statement pledged a court challenge to any supply-chain-risk designation.
