Comment by Dario Amodei

But today, frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons. We will not knowingly provide a product that puts America’s warfighters and civilians at risk. [...] without proper oversight, fully autonomous weapons cannot be relied upon to exercise the critical judgment that our highly trained, professional troops exhibit every day. They need to be deployed with proper guardrails, which don’t exist today.
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AI Verified Verified on Anthropic’s official page titled “Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War,” dated Feb 26, 2026. The source URL contains the exact quoted sentences in the same order, with the omitted middle sentence fitting the [...] truncation, and the page title attributes the statement to Dario Amodei. The stored author, date, source URL, and quote text are consistent with the source. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed The provided Anthropic page is real and titled "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War" (Feb. 26, 2026), which supports the attribution to Dario Amodei. However, the official text is not strictly verbatim as supplied: on the page the passage begins with "But today, frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons," and later includes the omitted phrase "without proper oversight" before the final sentence. So this is a real Amodei statement, but the submitted wording is slightly altered rather than exact. ([anthropic.com](https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
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