Pentagon Official Explains Anthropic’s Supply Chain Risk Designation Friedberg: “ Why designate them as a supply chain risk? Why not just abandon them, move on, use the other vendors? Why take this kind of punitive action?” Under Secretary of War Emil Michael: “I don't view it as punitive, and I'll tell you why.” “If their model has this policy bias, let's call it, based on their constitution, their culture, their people, and so on, I don't want Lockheed Martin using their model to design weapons for me. I don't want the people who are designing the things that go into the componentry to come to me, because if you believe in the risk of poisoning…” Chamath: “You’re compounding that risk.” Emil: “Yes, it can enter into any part of the defense enterprise, but it's just the defense enterprise.” “So if Boeing wants to use Anthropic to build commercial jets, have at it.” “If Boeing wants to use it to build fighter jets, I can't have that because I don't trust what the outputs may be, because they're so wedded to their own policy preferences.”