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Sanders argue that OpenAI and Anthropic have drifted from their founding missions of safe, public-interest AI development into... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/schneier-on-security-ntvopagl9 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ntvopAGl9.png og:image:alt: Schneier on Security og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Schneier on Security **[Schneier on Security](https://daily.dev/sources/schneier)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders argue that OpenAI and Anthropic have drifted from their founding missions of safe, public-interest AI development into profit-driven behemoths. Citing shaky unit economics, commoditized models, competition from free open-source and Chinese alternatives, and recent stock slumps (Nvidia, SpaceX), they contend the labs may never be sustainably profitable as private companies. Their proposal: if the market rejects these firms, the US government should nationalize them, splitting product innovation (managed like national labs) from compute operations (managed like public utilities), citing precedents like Switzerland, Spain, and Singapore's public AI efforts. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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