Robots & Artificial IntelligenceSkynet: Anthropic Has No “Kill Switch” for AI They Gave the Pentagon if the Bots Go Rogue Posted on May 11, 2026 by Administrator Anthropic’s admission in a fresh court filing should send a chill through anyone paying attention to the breakneck race for artificial intelligence supremacy. The company behind Claude has told a federal appeals court that it possesses no mechanism—no visibility, no technical backdoor, no “kill switch”—to control or shut down its models once the Pentagon deploys them in classified environments.