Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot Claude, is trying to carve out a spot as the Good Guy in the AI space. Fresh off being the only major AI firm to throw its support behind an AI safety bill in California, the company grabbed a headline from Semafor thanks to its apparent refusal to allow its model to be used for surveillance tasks, which is pissing off the Trump administration.

According to the report, law enforcement agencies have felt stifled by Anthropic’s usage policy , which includes a section restricting the use of its technology for “Criminal Justice, Censorship, Surveillance, or Prohibited Law Enforcement Purposes.” That includes banning the use of its AI tools to “Make determinations on criminal justice applications,” “Target or track a person’

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