The Pentagon, Claude, and the Case for Verifiable Constraints
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The Pentagon reportedly wants to classify Anthropic as a supply chain risk. Anthropic wants guardrails on autonomous weapons. Both sides are right — and both are missing the same thing.
There is no technical enforcement layer between what an AI provider allows and what a deployer actually does. Terms of Service are legal documents, not technical controls. Verifiable constraints — cryptographically enforced, independently auditable deployment contracts — solve this for both sides.