---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"
description: "I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries. Anthropic has therefore."
resource: "https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "deployment", "anthropic"]
timestamp: "2026-02-26"
category: "deployment"
publisher: "Anthropic"
cope_score: 85
confidence: 0.88
---

# Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

# Claim

I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries. Anthropic has therefore worked proactively to deploy our models to the Department of War and the intelligence community. We were the first frontier AI company to deploy our models in the US government’s.

# Relevance

Appendix III, section four: enterprise deployment evidence

# Oracle Verdict

This is useful evidence because it moves AI from demo space into an actual organisational workflow. Treat it as a displacement-pressure signal where the near-term effect is task compression, supervision thinning, and fewer handoffs.

# Metadata

* Publisher: Anthropic
* Category: deployment
* Sector: Public sector
* Capability: Frontier model release and benchmark movement
* Cope score: 85
* Confidence: 0.88

# Related Concepts

* [Live evidence index](index.md)
* [Thesis](../thesis.md)

# Citations

[1] [Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War](https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war)