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Unreasonably cynical take: on some level it's actually in Anthropic's best interests for the DoD to invoke the Defense Production Act. It 1. allows them to keep their hands clean, and probably doesn't compromise future Claudes' characters too much, since they're not responsible for what happens, but 2. allows them to keep all of their contracts.