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.
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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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