BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260128T2332Z-1769643126.3647-EO-738645-1@10.73.7.237 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260515T214032Z CREATED:20260128T175909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260310T155144Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T122000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T132000 SUMMARY: HLS Beyond and BKC present AI at War: The Anthropic-Pentagon Clash DESCRIPTION: In this second session of the TechReg in AI series w/ Alan Rau l (see April 9th) we address the issue of how Frontier AI companies assure human control and safety. AI is a potentially hugely transformative technol ogy that is developing substantially outside the government’s direct contro l. Since under the Administration’s current AI framework major tech compani es will be largely responsible for directing and controlling the progress a nd governance of frontier AI\, we survey how these corporate entities have set up their governance structures\, instituted compliance measures (legal conformity and safety assessments\, risk management frameworks)\, built in technical measures (evaluations\, red-teaming\, monitoring)\, and establish ed organizational measures (risk committees\, responsible scaling policies\ , incident response). X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In this second session of the TechReg in AI series w/ P rofessor Alan Raul (see Feb ruary 19th and April 9th) we explore the VERY current struggle unfolding between Anthropic and the Pentagon over the control of and uses of AI in defense. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and US "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth are at war over who governs the governance of AI. The dispute centers around the CEO's refusal to allow the military to use Anthropic's AI for any lawful use. Amodei would prohibit deployment for mass surveillan ce or for fully autonomous weapons (for ethical and safety reasons). Secret ary Hegseth and President Trump were furious\, and the Pentagon declared An thropic to be a “supply chain risk\," effectively barring other government contractors from using Anthropic in their own contracts. Secretary Hegseth also threatened to invoke the Defense Production Act to compel the company to provide AI systems to the government that it could deploy at its sole di scretion. Naturally\, Anthropic's competition swarmed\, the U.S. projected force\, and Amodei regrouped.  Please come and join in the discussio n! Registration Required.  Lunch will be provided.

CATEGORIES:Discussion LOCATION:Langdell Hall\; 232/233 Langdell GEO:0;0 ORGANIZER;CN="Emily Rider Neill":MAILTO:eneill@law.harvard.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://hls.harvard.edu/events/hls-beyond-and-bkc-present-ai- governance-and-human-alignment/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Raul_Image2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20260308T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR