Anthropic Faces Scrutiny Over AI Safety

Vanity Fair’s recent long profile by Joe Hagan examines Anthropic and Bay Area AI companies, reporting gaps between safety rhetoric and operational secrecy. The piece details legal disputes, alleged military use of Anthropic’s Claude, and concerns about chatbots' harms, including teen suicides and autonomous-weapons development. The reporting underscores urgent questions about transparency, guardrails, and governance as AI systems enter military and public domains.