# Anthropic to Court: We Literally Cannot Manipulate Our Own AI

- slug: anthropic-to-court-we-literally-cannot-manipulate-our-own-ai
- date: 2026-04-23
- category: Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic lost a $200M Pentagon contract and OpenAI took it. Now Anthropic is arguing to a federal appeals court that its Claude AI is built so that no one — not even Anthropic — can manipulate it once deployed in classified military networks. Oral arguments are May 19.

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