The trap Anthropic built for itself
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Max Tegmark, MIT physicist and AI safety advocate, argues that Anthropic's Pentagon blacklisting is a self-inflicted wound. After the Trump administration invoked a national security law to bar Anthropic from defense contracts — because the company refused to enable mass surveillance or autonomous lethal drones — Tegmark contends that Anthropic and its peers (OpenAI, Google DeepMind, xAI) created this regulatory vacuum by lobbying against binding AI regulation for years. He argues that by insisting on self-governance rather than supporting enforceable laws, these companies left themselves with no legal protections when the government came calling. Tegmark also addresses the China race argument, AGI timelines (citing GPT-4 at 27% and GPT-5 at 57% of his AGI definition), and calls for treating AI companies like any other regulated industry requiring clinical-trial-style safety demonstrations before releasing powerful systems.
