Sam Liccardo

I think Silicon Valley, there's a strong libertarian streak and so there are many who are cheering to see Anthropix step up as it had.

And look, there's a free market here and the Defense Department has many competitors to choose from and it has a right to choose whoever it wants.

But it seems to me that at the end of the day, when we're talking about AI safeguards, these ought to be decisions that are not confined to backroom negotiations between lawyers at the Pentagon and individual companies.

These ought to be very public discussions.

The administration should be setting rules.

Congress should be setting rules.

And the way this all went down now with retribution against Anthropic and the way that Secretary Hegseth and others have articulated, I think is very damaging to Silicon Valley and, frankly, to the country.

Well, this isn't the first time someone has said Congress is not moving at the pace of technology.

We've been waiting 30 years for a data privacy bill, for protections for children online, et cetera.

But the reality is this is an area where both Congress needs to act independently.

And the administration needs to act.

There should be clear lines.

I don't think a lot of folks argue with the lines that Anthropic articulated.

In fact, OpenAI seemed to have embraced them.

So why not, rather than punishing the company, hold these up as examples?

This is an opportunity where the industry can inform the government, and we ought to be taking those cues.

Yes, well, that is to be determined.

I guess I'm simply relying on what I'm hearing publicly.

Now, obviously, I understand why there might be cynicism.

Look, the bottom line is this shouldn't be enforced by one particular CEO at one company.