Emil Michael
Pentagon Under Secretary who authored the memo designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk.
“The Pentagon claims it's unworkable for the military or its vendors to rely on Anthropic because the company might pull the plug at any time due to its 'ideological' views around AI safety.”
Source→“[Pentagon Under Secretary Emil Michael], who in his memo refers to you as having mal-intent, a bad motive, cannot be trusted.”
Source→“"For the life of me, I do not see any evidence of maliciousness despite the best efforts of [Pentagon Under Secretary Emil Michael], who in his memo refers to you as having mal-intent, a bad motive, cannot be trusted... To me this is just a spectacular overreach by the department." — D.C. federal appeals court Judge Karen Henderson”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.