Anthropic CEO: I apologise for leaked memo | The Economist

You said that the real reason for this. impasse was that you hadn't lavished. quote dictator-style praise on President. Trump. Do you regret having said that? So, uh yeah, I I I want to completely. apologize for this for this memo. So, I. I want to make sure that people. understand, right? Like like this was. something written on Friday after the. following three things that happened. The president tweeted removing all. Anthropic services from the federal. government. Uh the Secretary of War tweeted. designating as a supply chain risk with.

a kind of broader version of the. designation than the one that ultimately. ended up actually being applied. And. then there was this deal between. you know, between one of the other AI. model providers and Department of War. that I think even that model provider. later described as I don't remember the. exact words, but you know. >> Opportunistic. Yeah, I was going to say confusing, right? So, you know, so basically all. these three things said happened in. within a few hours. You know, in in kind.

of sequence you know, in kind of. sequence from each other. We didn't know. ahead of time what was going to happen, when it was going to happen. So, it was among the most disorienting. times in in kind of in kind of in kind. of Anthropic's history. The other side of it is. you know, I think Anthropic has an. internal culture where I post a lot. Like some people describe this as a. memo. I wouldn't describe it as that. Like I post things in Slack. I post them. a lot. And the culture within the. company is that I'm very free and you.

know, it's it's not it's not like a. considered you know, it's not like a. really considered or refined version of. my thinking, right? It's not what I. would say on reflection. >> You've been very clear now. You've. apologized for the memo. Have you. apologized to President Trump? Will you. apologize to him? I've apologized to the. people that I've talked talked to within. the DOW. You know, I'm happy to speak to. others within the administration as. well. Um I kind of don't know what will happen. in the future, but you know, I I'm I'm. I'm you know, I'm I'm really happy to to.

to to I'm happy to speak to anyone.