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In the Pentagon Battle with Anthropic, We All Lose
The basic problem is that our current methods of regulating advanced AI models. . . are collapsing, and we do not have anything good to replace them with. (Illustration by The Free Press)
AI companies and the government have followed informal principles to advance the industry and keep us safe. Pete Hegseth is putting that at risk.
By Tyler Cowen
03.02.26 — Tyler Cowen Must Know
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The Pentagon and Anthropic have seen their relationship blow up in an argument over how the military could use Anthropic’s AI models. On the surface, this is a fight about defense contracts. Really, it is something much deeper: a stress test of how the United States governs frontier AI.

Anthropic is being eased out of Department of Defense contracting fo…

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Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also Faculty Director of the Mercatus Center. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1987. His book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better was a New York Times best-seller. He was named in an Economist poll as one of the most influential economists of the last decade and Bloomberg Businessweek dubbed him "America's Hottest Economist." Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of its "Top 100 Global Thinkers" of 2011. He co-writes a blog at www.MarginalRevolution.com, hosts a podcast Conversations with Tyler, and is co-founder of an online economics education project, MRU.org. He is also director of the philanthropic project Emergent Ventures.
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