{"id":228968,"date":"2026-06-09T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/democrats-want-a-military-ai-restriction-law-following-anthropics-pentagon-fallout\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:00:11","slug":"democrats-want-a-military-ai-restriction-law-following-anthropics-pentagon-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/democrats-want-a-military-ai-restriction-law-following-anthropics-pentagon-fallout\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Want a Military AI Restriction Law Following Anthropic&#8217;s Pentagon Fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/democrats-want-a-military-ai-restriction-law-following-anthropics-pentagon-fallout-2000768990\">Democrats Want a Military AI Restriction Law Following Anthropic&#8217;s Pentagon Fallout<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/democrats-want-a-military-ai-restriction-law-following-anthropics-pentagon-fallout-2000768990\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/democrats-want-a-military-ai-restriction-law-following-anthropics-pentagon-fallout-2000768990<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-09 18:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"gizmodo.com\">gizmodo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Democrats in Congress are advocating for legislation to impose stricter controls on the Department of Defense\u2019s use of artificial intelligence (AI), including bills by Sen. Adam Schiff (HALO Act), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, and Sen. Elissa Slotkin.<\/li>\n<li>The HALO Act focuses on requiring human command approval for lethal actions by autonomous weapon systems, detailed recordkeeping on military decisions, and prohibiting AI use in certain nuclear and mass surveillance scenarios.<\/li>\n<li>The debate was intensified when the Pentagon\u2019s partnership with AI company Anthropic ended, with Anthropic refusing to remove safeguards against its AI being used for domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.<\/li>\n<li>The fallout led the Pentagon to contract with other major AI firms like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, while Anthropic is contesting its designation as a supply chain risk in court.<\/li>\n<li>Senators Schiff, Gillibrand, and Slotkin all aim to include their respective AI-related bills in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), ensuring human oversight in high-consequence military AI decisions.<\/li>\n<li>Critics highlight automation bias and the \u201cblack box\u201d nature of AI as underlying risks, suggesting even oversight may not fully prevent potential errors from AI-driven military actions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Want a Military AI Restriction Law Following Anthropic&#8217;s Pentagon Fallout https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/democrats-want-a-military-ai-restriction-law-following-anthropics-pentagon-fallout-2000768990 Publish Date: 2026-06-09&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2279299841-1200x675.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-228968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228970,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228968\/revisions\/228970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}