If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders
TL;DR
From space to telecommunications, the US has a long history of fostering technology for the public good. These AI models could be aligned to democratic values, not corporate profits OpenAI, and then Anthropic, were each formed by AI developers who feared unrestrained corporate AI development – specifically, that companies like Google and Meta would steer the technology towards deleterious, maybe even catastrophically unsafe, outcomes for society.
Nauti's Take
For small teams, the useful signal is about control: dependencies on OpenAI and Anthropic should be reviewed regularly across pricing, APIs, usage rules, and investor incentives. Nationalization remains politically and legally undefined, and the available source offers an opinion argument rather than evidence of a workable transition.
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