Emil Michael

Rule Changes

Leading technical negotiations with AI companies

Anthropic's Claude became the first commercial AI model deployed on classified U.S. military networks in late 2024. Sixteen months later, the Defense Department designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk"—a label historically reserved for foreign adversaries—for refusing to permit Claude's use for mass surveillance of Americans or fully autonomous weapons.

Updated May 29

New Capabilities

Leading technical implementation of drone programs

The Pentagon spent $398 million on small drones in 2022. Four years later, as Ukraine demonstrated that $400 drones could destroy $10 million tanks, Congress authorized $1.7 billion—a fourfold increase. Now the Department of Defense has launched its most ambitious small-drone initiative ever: a $1.1 billion program to field more than 300,000 one-way attack drones by 2028, with the first 30,000 expected by mid-2026.

Updated May 26