The Frontier
The Frontier
Anthropic, State, and Utopia with Dean Ball and Ketan Ramakrishnan
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Anthropic, State, and Utopia with Dean Ball and Ketan Ramakrishnan

The DoW's "supply chain risk" threat, a secret third thing between nationalization and anarchy, and the First Amendment case for letting labs do virtue ethics

Tim Hwang is joined by FAI senior fellow Dean Ball and Yale Law School professor Ketan Ramakrishnan to unpack the showdown between the Department of War and Anthropic: why the real issue isn't the contract but the punishment, what happens when the state threatens to excommunicate a company from the entire chip and cloud ecosystem, whether Congress will eventually try to write Claude's constitution, and the inevitability of regulation.

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