Catholic Moral Theologians, Ethicists Back Anthropic in Government AI Showdown
Ethics Center Director of Technology Ethics, Brian Patrick Green, is among a group of Catholic Moral Theologians and Ethicists who filed a "friends of the court brief," or amici curiae in support of Anthropic in its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of War.
The scholars position is that Anthropic "was acting as a responsible and moral corporate citizen" and "not as a threat to the safety of the American supply chain," reports the National Catholic Reporter, and they argue that "lethal autonomous weapons problematically obscure human agency, dangerously shifting responsibility away from human decision-makers to machines."
Brian Green, director, technology ethics, featured in National Catholic Reporter.
Mar 14, 2026