What the Pentagon Did to Anthropic Should Make Every Founder Nervous

In the wake of the Pentagon’s decision, on Friday night, to cut all ties with A.I. provider Anthropic, much of the political coverage has focused on what the two sides were fighting about, with Anthropic insisting that Claude, its A.I. system, not be used for mass surveillance of Americans or for the operation of autonomous weapons with no humans in the loop, and the Pentagon insisting that no private company can be allowed to dictate to the military how it uses its weapons and technology. But focusing on that debate misses what’s really going on in the fight between the…