The US Is Fighting for Control of AI. It Would Be Better Off Building Standards.
The drama playing out between the Pentagon and the AI firm Anthropic reflects a genuinely novel scenario: the US government is on the outside looking in on the most transformational technology of the decade.
Amid ongoing legal battles over the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply chain risk, a response to the company’s refusal to grant the Pentagon unrestricted access to its models, President Trump appears to be softening his stance. For now, however, the technology is in the hands of extremely well-funded, mature private organizations that can live without US government contracts. Rather than trying to strong-arm its way in, the Trump administration should be building influence in AI the same way its predecessors in the US government established lasting influence over the internet.
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