Derek Thompson

The Biden administration was much more pro-regulation of AI, especially in the future, than the folks who came in in the Trump administration.

And now you have Pete Hegseth essentially establishing the federal government

as the most aggressive regulator of artificial intelligence in the developed world if you essentially have the government being able to say, we can destroy your company if we don't come to terms.

So that's what I feel most strongly about, that this is egregious behavior on the part of, I can't believe I have to say it, but the secretary of war.

War is how we do it.

Excuse me.

There was no guttural accent there.

War.

What I feel less strongly about is whether anthropic

had any business being a contractor with the federal government or with this federal government.

I believe that like two parties in a contract can simply agree to disagree, right?

I spoke to folks in the administration about this case.

I spoke to folks in the administration I think are uncrazy.

And they said this to me.

They said, look, if Lockheed Martin

was doing business with the US government.

And they sold the US government one of their fighter jets.

And they said, by the way, we have certain restrictions on the use of these fighter jets.

You can't use this jet to bomb Iran.

We would really prefer you don't even fly these jets in the Middle East at all because of the morals and the values of this company.