I don’t think this is ‘woke’ exactly, just that Hegseth has a vision for what the military should be like which is incompatible with Anthropic applying ethical judgement. If Anthropic refuses to surveil Americans, they might push back on other things in the future, and are at especially high risk of refusing to do illegal things Hegseth wants them to. Hegseth thinks generals should be physically strong men who don’t take Harvard classes; likewise, contractors should obey orders and not question their ethics.
I don’t think this is ‘woke’ exactly, just that Hegseth has a vision for what the military should be like which is incompatible with Anthropic applying ethical judgement. If Anthropic refuses to surveil Americans, they might push back on other things in the future, and are at especially high risk of refusing to do illegal things Hegseth wants them to. Hegseth thinks generals should be physically strong men who don’t take Harvard classes; likewise, contractors should obey orders and not question their ethics.