Nextgov/FCW’s Alexandra Kelley on the government’s breakup with Anthropic
Alexandra Kelley, our Nextgov/FCW colleague who covers emerging tech, jumps in to explain how agencies are phasing out Anthropic’s artificial intelligence tools amid the company’s disagreement with the Pentagon on usage of them.
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Show Notes
The Defense Department and Anthropic are on opposite ends of a nasty disagreement, with government-wide and industry-wide implications, over what the company’s Claude large language model and other offerings can be used for.
Alexandra Kelley, our Nextgov/FCW colleague who covers emerging tech, has extensively covered the fallout from that impasse as agencies are working to comply with President Trump’s executive order to stop using Claude after the Pentagon essentially broke up with Anthropic.
“Alexa,” as we and other GovExec colleagues call her, joins our Ross Wilkers for this episode to explain how those phase-out processes are taking place and provide an initial look at the government’s AI landscape without Anthropic in it.
Claude is embedded in so many workflows across government that fully removing it is not a matter of simply deleting the app, as Alexa points out.
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