⚠️ L'affaire Anthropic: When government bullies the builders
Designating an American AI company a security risk threatens the trust that underpins economic growth
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in the USA and around the world:
A lesson in Political Science 101: A functional government requires not just a monopoly on violence, but the final word on national security—within constitutional limits, of course.
A second lesson in Poli Sci 101: Liberal democracies and their market-based economies rest on an equally important principle: Businesses operate within predictable rules and are shielded from arbitrary coercion by government. The clash between the US Department of Defense and Anthropic, an artificial-intelligence firm that refused to relax limits on military use of its software, exposes the tension between those two ideas.
