by Jon Decker
Excerpt from the Washington Examiner:
President Donald Trump renewed his commitment to seeing America win the AI race at his recent summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Trump administration has rejected the Biden approach of centralized government control and heavy regulation and taken the right approach of allowing American technology to flourish.
However, these efforts are being challenged by key players such as Anthropic, which has become the chief advocate of Biden-style AI regulation, who seek to undermine Trump’s market-oriented approach in favor of regulations they believe will protect their incumbent position and enhance their bottom line.
It’s an age-old problem with government red tape. We have seen before how novel industries start out opposing regulation, but somewhere down the road — usually after growing large — they have a change of heart, realizing that regulation can be used to build a moat around their strong position and keep out competitors. Looking at AI, Anthropic has been attempting to figuratively “pull the ladder up” on nascent players by endorsing legislation that adds new liability expenses, additional disclosure laws, and bans on competitors exporting the physical chips that AI data centers rely on.
These efforts amount to a significant barrier to entry for competitors, which White House AI czar David Sacks incisively warned against, stating: “Anthropic is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fearmongering.”
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