Judge Stays Pentagon’s Labeling of Anthropic as ‘Supply Chain Risk’
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily stopped the Department of Defense from labeling Anthropic as a security risk, in a reprieve for the artificial intelligence start-up and its work with the federal government.
In a scathing 43-page ruling, Judge Rita F. Lin of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California said Anthropic would not be restricted from continuing with its federal contracts for now. The ruling is not a final decision, as the case continues.
“The record supports an inference that Anthropic is being punished for criticizing the government’s contracting position in the press,” Judge Lin wrote in the order granting the preliminary injunction against the government. “Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government.”
At least the judiciary is standing up for the Constitution, in the absence of Congress.