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NNSA Teams Up With AI Company on Tool to Flag Potential Nuclear Weapons Misuse

Sarah Salem

Tuesday, August 26th, 2025

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NNSA Teams Up With AI Company on Tool to Flag Potential Nuclear Weapons Misuse

Close up illustration of atomic particle for nuclear energy imagery

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is teaming up with Anthropic to build a tool that can determine whether artificial intelligence is providing knowledge on nuclear weapons that can be used for nefarious purposes. Anthropic, a 2021 San Francisco-based AI safety and research company that built AI assistant models like Claude, announced last week that it was working with the Department of Energy’s national laboratories and its semi-autonomous agency in charge of maintaining the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile. “Information relating…

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