As someone looking at this from outside the US, the whole sequence of events is frankly terrifying.

I fear that frontier AI is going to be nationalised for military purposes, not just in the US but across the globe.

At the same time, I really don’t know what Anthropic were expecting when they described their technology as potentially more dangerous than an atom bomb while agreeing to integrate purpose-built models with Palantir to be deployed in high-security networks for classified military tasks.

Good cop/bad cop has proven very effective at manufacturing consent. The two political parties of capital interests have it down to a science. This is just the AI iteration playing out.