Jaden Shafer

There's a lot of ideological tensions here, as many know that listen to the podcast.

David Sachs, who's in the administration, he's the AI advisor, he's publicly criticized Anthropic's safety posture as being overly restrictive.

And Dean Ball of the Foundation of American Innovation said that, you know, so he's taking the other side of this.

He says that the DPA in this context would basically show there's some deeper instability, framing it as the government using economic leverage against a company that

over policy disagreement.

So there's obviously two sides of this argument.

I think right now, Anthropic is in an interesting position.

And the reason why I think why it feels like the US government and the Department of Defense specifically is trying to force Anthropic's hand in here, right?

Because obviously a free market, they'll be like, okay, fine, whatever.

You don't want us to be able to work with you.

We'll go find someone else, right?

Maybe Google or OpenAI or Grok or XAI, like one of these other alternatives.

But apparently there's some reports that say the only frontier AI lab with classified Department of Defense access right now is Anthropic.

So basically the Pentagon has no immediate alternatives.

And we know that they're actively using this because it came out when they did the raid and captured Maduro that they were using Anthropic for that whole raid to go and properly execute that.

That was the AI model that kind of ran that raid, which was obviously very successful, whether you agree with it or not.

no American soldiers were killed in that raid, and it happened very quickly and efficiently.

So Anthropic seems to be the only vendor right now, and this is kind of the problem.

Apparently there's some reports that XAI would come in and help instead, but we really know Anthropic is just crushing it at this kind of multi-step reasoning.

All the developers use it for a reason,