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29-08-2025
WASHINGTON: The artificial intelligence company Anthropic launched a National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council in efforts to deepen ties with Washington and allied governments as AI becomes increasingly central to defence.
The San Francisco-based start-up announced the new panel on Wednesday.
The council’s launch underscores AI firms’ growing efforts to shape policies and ensure their technology supports democratic interests amid global competition.
Anthropic’s new effort comes as rivals, such as OpenAI and Google DeepMind, step up engagement with governments and regulators on AI safety, though neither has announced a dedicated national security advisory council.
Anthropic’s council brings together former senators and senior officials from the US Department of Defense, intelligence agencies, as well as the Departments of Energy and Justice.
It will advise Anthropic on integrating AI into sensitive government operations while shaping standards for security, ethics and compliance.
Its members include Roy Blunt, a former senator and intelligence committee member, David S Cohen, a former deputy CIA director, and Richard Fontaine, who leads the Center for a New American Security.
Other appointees held top legal and nuclear security roles across Republican and Democratic administrations.
Anthropic said the group will advise on high-impact applications in cybersecurity, intelligence analysis and scientific research, while helping set industry standards for responsible AI use.
The company plans to expand the council as partnerships with public-sector institutions grow.
Last month, the Pentagon established a $200m program to develop AI tools for defence, highlighting the sector’s push to balance innovation with security risks. The initiative reflects intensifying global competition over AI capabilities, with Washington seeking to maintain an edge against rivals, such as China and Russia.
The effort, which includes Anthropic, OpenAI, Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and xAI, the AI company championed by Elon Musk.
Last month, a United States federal judge has ruled that the company Anthropic made “fair use” of the books it utilized to train artificial intelligence (AI) tools without the permission of the authors.
The favorable ruling comes at a time when the impacts of AI are being discussed by regulators and policymakers, and the industry is using its political influence to push for a loose regulatory framework.
“Like any reader aspiring to be a writer, Anthropic’s LLMs (large language models) trained upon works not to race ahead and replicate or supplant them but to turn a hard corner and create something different,” US District Judge William Alsup said.
A group of authors had filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that Anthropic’s use of their work to train its chatbot, Claude, without their consent was illegal but Alsup said that the AI system had not violated the safeguards in US copyright laws, which are designed for “enabling creativity and fostering scientific progress”.
He accepted Anthropic’s claim that the AI’s output was “exceedingly transformative” and therefore fell under the “fair use” protections.
Alsup, however, did rule that Anthropic’s copying and storage of seven million pirated books in a “central library” infringed author copyrights and did not constitute fair use. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
