nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/7ea16eab23da9a98 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260311s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/7ea16eab23da9a98 doi eng 342 23 Muniz da Conceição, Lucas Henrique Author aut Private Power, Public Values - Anthropic and the Constitutional Dimension of Governance in the Digital Environment Muniz da Conceição, Lucas Henrique Verfassungsblog 2026-03-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier It is not every day that a major AI company invokes constitutional values against the US government. Anthropic – the US-American AI company behind Claude – declined the US military’s request for unrestricted access to its AI tools, citing worries about domestic mass surveillance and the use of its technology in fully autonomous weapons. Recognising digital corporations as potential drivers of constitutional rights runs counter to the most recent literature on digital regulation and digital sovereignty. But perceiving them as such remains crucial. CC BY-SA 4.0 Anthropic digital age Digital Constitutionalism digital platforms European Union Platform Governance USA Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/anthropic-us/ raw object